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timbreless, a.|ˈtæmbəlɪs|
[f. timbre n.3 + -less.]
Of the voice: lacking timbre; having no distinctive quality or characteristic; without depth, intensity, or variation; monotonic.
1928H. P. Lovecraft in Tales of Magic & Mystery Mar. 31/2 Reassuring me in a finely modulated though oddly hollow and timbreless voice. 1936‘R. West’ Thinking Reed vii. 217 In her timbreless, worried gabble, she said things which [meant]..nothing at all except that she knew she was late. 1976‘D. Fletcher’ Accomplices i. 18 Her voice was light, timbreless. There was a slight accent, a flattening of the vowels, a careless tendency to swallow the ultimate syllable of a word. |