timbrelessadj.
/ˈtambəlɪs/ Of the voice: lacking timbre; having no distinctive quality or characteristic; without depth, intensity, or variation; monotonic.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > dull
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timbreless1928
1928 H. 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.
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