undertoned

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English

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Etymology 1

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From under- +‎ toned.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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undertoned (comparative more undertoned, superlative most undertoned)

  1. Not sufficiently toned.

Etymology 2

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From undertone +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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undertoned (not comparable)

  1. (in combination) Having an undertone of a specified kind.
    • 2011, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches From a Black Journalista[1], Boston: Northeastern University Press, page 19:
      Makeup is most often a shopper’s port of entry into recreational buying, yet it is also where race immediately thwarts that lovely sense of possibility. I want foundation by the latest maker, but it’s all too ashen or ruddy for my brown, yellow-undertoned complexion.
    • 2012 August 30, The Oracle:
      [] talk show host Chris Matthews chastised former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney for his racially undertoned birther jokes []

Verb

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undertoned

  1. simple past and past participle of undertone

Anagrams

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