Crossword-Solution: OVERTONE 8 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Overtone n. One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone
as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating
sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the
natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth,
etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone.

We have 27 clues for the answer “OVERTONE”

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UPPER partial vibration 1 answer
Subsidiary meaning 1 answer
Subsidiary intent 1 answer
Secondary quality 1 answer
Secondary meaning 1 answer
Public figure giving hint 1 answer
Part of a harmonic series 1 answer
Insinuation: obvious one (8) 1 answer
Hint; insinuation 1 answer
Extra meaning 1 answer
A quality in music. 1 answer
Faint sound. 3 answers
Shading 5 answers
harmonic 6 answers
Innuendo 9 answers
sonority 15 answers
connotation 16 answers
Insinuation 16 answers
Implication 28 answers
Musical note 29 answers
intimation 39 answers
Suggestion 41 answers
undertone 57 answers
Nuance 57 answers
undercurrent 65 answers
Shade 78 answers
Hint 94 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with OVERTONE (5)

The small, still voice within her had said, "Don't go! Don't go!" But the harsh, high-pitched, reckless overtone said, "Go on! Have a good time.
One Basket Edna Ferber 1996
Without encroaching upon the biographical task, one may borrow from biography this insistent echo: the anecdotes of Lincoln sound over and over the note of easy-going good nature; but there is to be found in many of the Lincoln anecdotes an overtone of melancholy which lingers after one's impression of his good nature.
Abraham Lincoln and the Union Nathaniel W. Stephenson 2001
There were shouts of derision and mockery--a great overtone of acrid derision--the flag and its owner ignominiously disappeared.
Aaron's Rod D. H. Lawrence 2003
Nearly opposite to me was one of the sweetest faces I have ever seen, the complexion quite pearly white, the hair of pale gold, in shining little rings over the brow, which was wonderfully pure, though with an almost childish overtone.
Stray Pearls Charlotte M. Yonge 2012
The music itself, blurred by a loud trombone, became hot and shadowy, a languorous overtone to the scraping of many shoes and slippers.
Tales of the Jazz Age F. Scott Fitzgerald 2003

Quotes with OVERTONE (1)

Anybody who knows me knows that half the time I'm saying things with a somewhat humorous overtone.
Roger Ailes
Where this answer appears

Appears in: Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NY Sun, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 32 times in crossword archives (1955–2021).