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buzz
Talk and comment, attention or excitement, etc. about a phenomenon, person, activity, etc.
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  1. Talk and comment, attention or excitement, etc. about a phenomenon, person, activity, etc.
  2. (Informal) A rush or feeling of energy or excitement; a feeling of slight intoxication.
  3. A vibrating, humming, or droning sound.
murmur
(Medicine) An abnormal sound, usually emanating from the heart, that sometimes indicates a diseased condition.
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  1. (Medicine) An abnormal sound, usually emanating from the heart, that sometimes indicates a diseased condition.
  2. A low, indistinct, continuous sound:
  3. (Med.) Any abnormal sound heard by auscultation, esp. of the heart
hum
The act of humming.
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  1. The act of humming.
  2. A continuous, murmuring sound
undercurrent
An underlying tendency, force, or influence often contrary to what is superficially evident.
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  1. An underlying tendency, force, or influence often contrary to what is superficially evident.
  2. 2012 May 9, Jonathan Wilson, “Europa League: Radamel Falcao's Atlético Madrid rout Athletic Bilbao", the Guardian:
  3. (Figuratively) A tendency of feeling or opinion that is concealed rather than exposed.
suggestion
A suggesting or being suggested
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  1. A suggesting or being suggested
  2. The sequential process by which one thought or mental image leads to another.
  3. The act of suggesting:
connotation
The act or process of connoting.
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  1. The act or process of connoting.
  2. An idea or meaning suggested by or associated with a word or thing:
  3. A meaning of a word or phrase that is suggested or implied, as opposed to a denotation, or literal meaning. A characteristic of words or phrases, or of the contexts that words and phrases are used in.
hint
A small, barely detectable amount of.
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  1. A small, barely detectable amount of.
  2. A clue.
  3. A slight indication of a fact, wish, etc.; indirect suggestion or piece of advice; intimation; covert allusion
implication
Something implied, from which an inference may be drawn
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  1. Something implied, from which an inference may be drawn
  2. The act of implying or the condition of being implied.
  3. An indirect indication; a suggestion.
inkling
A slight understanding or vague idea or notion.
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  1. A slight understanding or vague idea or notion.
  2. A slight hint or indication.
suspicion
A minute amount or slight indication; a trace:
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  1. A minute amount or slight indication; a trace:
  2. The state or feeling of having no confidence or certainty about something; distrust:
  3. The act or an instance of suspecting guilt, a wrong, harmfulness, etc. with little or no supporting evidence
undercurrent
An underlying tendency, opinion, etc., usually one that is kept hidden and not expressed openly
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  1. An underlying tendency, opinion, etc., usually one that is kept hidden and not expressed openly
  2. An underlying tendency, force, or influence often contrary to what is superficially evident.
  3. (Figuratively) A tendency of feeling or opinion that is concealed rather than exposed.
Find another word for undertone. In this page you can discover 15 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for undertone, like: buzz, murmur, hum, undercurrent, suggestion, connotation, whisper, meaning, hint, implication and inkling.

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  • "I need nothing from this world!" he said with an undertone that was purely inhuman.

  • His regard was casual on the surface, but something in his eyes suggested an undertone of tension.

  • The prominence given by most of the Sophists to rhetoric, their cultivation of a subjective readiness as the essential equipment for life, their substitution of persuasion for conviction, all mark the sceptical undertone of their teaching.

  • Willarski, stepping toward him, said something to him in French in an undertone and then went up to a small wardrobe in which Pierre noticed garments such as he had never seen before.

  • In much of his writings, and in his general attitude, there was to most people an undertone of rather nasty suggestion which created prejudice against him, and his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), with all its sparkle and cleverness, impressed them more from this point of view than from its purely literary brilliance.

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