tonified

English

Verb

tonified

1. simple past and past participle of tonify

Adjective

tonified (comparative more tonified, superlative most tonified)

1. Highly fashionable or stylish; classy; tony.
   • 2004, Lucia Pollock, Run, Annie, Run, →ISBN:

     That tonified filly talkin' to me like that. She oughter be took down a peg or two.

   • 2011, Anne MacVicar Grant, J. P. Grant, Letters from the Mountains, →ISBN:

     You can imagine no set of people more polished, powdered, tonified and Englified, than they are.

   • 2015, Richard Baxter Townshend, Lone Pine : The Story of a Lost Mine:

     "A d—d highfalutin, tonified cuss he is," said Backus as soon as the prospector was out of earshot.

   • 2015, Cassidy Coal, A Mile High Romance: The Complete Collection, page 80:

     Walking the tonified halls of Corrigan, Inc. made her feel like she was wearing a neon-orange sash across her chest that read "Trailer Park Queen – Doesn't Belong."

2. (linguistics) relying on tone as a determinant of meaning; tonal.
   • 1984, George N. Clements, J. Goldsmith, Autosegmental Studies in Bantu Tone, →ISBN, page 75:

     The accentual nature of H tones was said to be captured by this formal property not obtaining in “pure tone” languages with completely tonified underlying forms.

   • 1985, D. L. Goyvaerts, African Linguistics: Essays in Memory of M.W.K. Semikenke, →ISBN, page 251:

     In fact, the claim is inherent in the H vs. ∅ underlying system that only languages that have this kind of opposition (as opposed to completely tonified underlying forms) will have globality.

   • 1989, Hubert Devonish, Talking in Tones: A Study of Tone in Afro-European Creole Languages, →ISBN:

     The existence of such processes requires that Djuka be regarded as an incompletely tonified language with underlyingly specified H-tones.

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