undertoned

English

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Etymology 1

From under- +‎ toned.

Adjective

undertoned (comparative more undertoned, superlative most undertoned)

1. Not sufficiently toned.

Etymology 2

From undertone +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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

undertoned

1. simple past and past participle of undertone

Anagrams

• undernoted