neutral tone
Without any inflection
A neutral tone is a manner of speaking or writing that avoids strong emotion, bias, or judgment.
It conveys information without signaling approval, disapproval, or personal investment: The report was written in a neutral tone.
In discussions of voice and communication, neutral tone suggests objectivity or deliberate restraint—neither warm nor cold, neither enthusiastic nor dismissive.
- flatLacking vertical variation
- flat affectDiminished emotional expressiveness
- monotoneSingle unvarying pitch
- impartialShowing no preference
- expressionlessShowing no feeling
straight face · beige · detached · objective · deadpan · even · unbiased · calm · even keel · measured · muted · dispassionate · bland · balance · gray · diplomatic · poker-faced · level
- tonesdowndrift, lower register, creaky voice, pitch range, acute accent
- beautymakeup, cosmetics, lipstick, mascara, eyeliner
- Mandarinpinyin, Hanzi, traditional characters, classifiers, simplified characters
- Chinese dictionariesdictionaries, Chinese-English, English-Chinese, entries, definitions
- Skin Tonesfair, pale, tan, olive, dark
- Bopomofophonetic symbols, finals
neutral toneemotional tone
Feeling behind expression
impassioned · excitable · histrionic · overwrought · effusive
neutral toneslanted
Angled from vertical
one-sided · tendentious · editorializing · loaded language · propagandistic
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