tone words 51-75

laudatory

including, expressing or bestowing praise; revering; applause; venerating

learned

having or demonstrating profound knowledge or scholarship; erudite; scholarly

loathing

strong dislike or disgust; intense aversion; abhorrence

lugubrious

mournful or doleful, especially to a ludicrous degree

matter of fact

pertaining to or adhering to facts; literal; objective; detached; clinical

meditative

directed to, characterized by, or expressing meditation; reflective; introspective

melancholy

sadness or depression of the spirits; gloom; pensive reflection or contemplation; solemn; somber; lachrymose

mocking

to treat with scorn or contempt; deride; ridicule; to mimic, as in derision

mock-serious

characterized by pretended seriousness; often creates and ironic, whimsical, or humorous tone

mournful

feeling or expressing grief; doleful; lamenting; forlorn; elegiac; melancholy

nostalgic

a longing for things, persons or situations tied to the past; sentimental

objective

not influenced by personal feelings or opinions in considering and representing facts; disinterested; fair-minded; even-handed

patronizing

displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner; snobbish

pedantic

one who pays undue attention to book learning and formal rules without having an understanding or experience; ostentatious in one's learning

piquant

pleasantly stimulating or exciting to the mind; stimulating; thought-provoking.; intriguing

plaintive

expressing sorrow; mournful; melancholy

poignant

affecting or moving the emotions; emotionally moving/touching

pompous

characterized by an exaggerated show of dignity or self importance; pretentious

pretentious

attempting to impress by affecting greater importance than is actually possessed

prosaic

commonplace or dull; matter-of-fact or unimaginative; banal; insipid; pedestrian

provincial

having or showing the manners or viewpoints considered characteristic of unsophisticated inhabitants of a province; rustic; narrow or illiberal; parochial

provocative

tending to anger or exasperate; exciting; stimulating; arousing

puritanical

rigorous in religious observance; marked by stern morality; austere; uptight

reflective

given to, marked by, or concerned with meditation or deliberation

reminiscent

awakening memories of something similar; suggestive