toned adjective.
[tǝʊnd] LME.[from TONE noun & verb: see -ED1, -ED2.]1. That has been toned;
spec. (a) (of body or mind) brought into tone;
(b) slightly coloured, tinted.
LME.toned paper off-white paper.
■ Ld Macaulay A..being whose mind was..as firmly toned at eighty as at forty. ■ C. Potok A huge canvas toned in a wash of burnt sienna.2. As 2nd elem. of comb.: having a tone of a specified kind or quality.
L18.deep-toned,
fine-toned, etc.
Comb.:
toned-down adjective reduced in intensity or harshness.
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