undertoned

English

Etymology 1

under- +‎ toned

Adjective

undertoned (not comparable)

  1. Not sufficiently toned

Etymology 2

undertone +‎ -ed

Adjective

undertoned (not comparable)

  1. (in combination) Having an undertone of a specified kind.
    • 2011, Erin Aubry Kaplan, Black Talk, Blue Thoughts and Walking the Color Line: Dispatches From a Black Journalista, Boston: Northeastern University Press, p. 19,
      Makeup is most often a shopper’s port of entry into recreational buying, yet it is also where race immediately thwarts that lovely sense of possibility. I want foundation by the latest maker, but it’s all too ashen or ruddy for my brown, yellow-undertoned complexion.
    • 2012, The Oracle, 30 August, 2012,
      […] talk show host Chris Matthews chastised former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney for his racially undertoned birther jokes […]

Verb

undertoned

  1. simple past tense and past participle of undertone

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