ton|ic

ton|ic
ton|ic «TON ihk», noun, adjective.
–n.
1. a) a medicine or remedy supposed to stimulate or tone up the body. Cod-liver oil and sassafras tea are tonics. b) anything that gives strength, invigorates, or braces: »

The clean country air was a tonic to the tourists.

2. Music. the first note or fundamental tone of a scale; keynote.
3. Phonetics, Obsolete. a voiced sound.
4. U.S. flavored carbonated water: »

celery tonic.

╂[< adjective]
–adj.
1. a) restoring to health and vigor; giving strength; bracing: »

The mountain air is tonic.

b) Figurative. refreshing to the mind or spirit: »

Since most bands playing Chicago at the time were of the Dixieland persuasion, to hear Lombardo's restrained melodies over the air was a strange and tonic experience for many residents of the region (New Yorker).

2. a) having to do with muscular tension. b) characterized by continuous contraction of the muscles: »

a tonic convulsion.

3. Music. a) having to do with a tone or tones. b) of or based on a keynote: »

a tonic chord.

4. Linguistics. a) of or having to do with tone or accent in speaking. b) (of a language) using tone distinctively.
5. Phonetics. a) stressed; accented. b) (formerly) voiced.
6. of or having to do with the effect of color, or of light and shade, in a picture.
╂[< Greek tonikós of stretching < tónos tension; see etym. under tone (Cf. ↑tone)]

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