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tonic ton·ic

Spelling: [ton-ik]

IPA: /ˈtɒn ɪk/

Tonic is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 59 anagrams from letters in tonic (cinot).

Definitions for tonic

noun

1. a medicine that invigorates or strengthens:
2. anything invigorating physically, mentally, or morally:
3. quinine water.
4. Music. the first degree of the scale; the keynote.
5. Chiefly Eastern New England. soda pop.
6. Phonetics. a tonic syllable or accent.

adjective

1. pertaining to, maintaining, increasing, or restoring the tone or health of the body or an organ, as a medicine.
2. invigorating physically, mentally, or morally.
3. Physiology, Pathology. pertaining to tension, as of the muscles. marked by continued muscular tension:
4. using differences in tone or pitch to distinguish between words that are otherwise phonemically identical:
5. pertaining to tone or accent in speech.
6. Phonetics. (of a syllable) bearing the principal stress or accent, usually accompanied by a change in pitch.
7. Music. of or relating to a tone or tones. pertaining to or founded on the keynote, or first tone, of a musical scale:

Origin of tonic

First recorded in 1640-50, tonic is from the Greek word tonikós pertaining to stretching or tones. See tone, -ic

Examples for tonic

Its entrance into the "Western World" was a tonic to this stock.

(tonic water made today still notes “contains quinine” on the label).

There was a snap and tang in the breeze which braced one like a tonic.

“What we want is to administer a tonic to the Conference in Milan,” he said airily.

The good news is that the departure of Berlusconi could be a tonic that awakens Italy from a stupor of lassitude and indifference.

Note: Realgar: The Chinese believe that realgar is a mithridate and tonic.

For Feiffer, the cold isolation of the upstate New York retreat worked like a tonic.

Unfortunately, the four-time NBA All-Star was tragically known for his unofficial nickname: Vin and tonic.

And so Europeans sweetened it, giving us so-called tonic water, the “tonic” being the antidote to malaria.

I always felt that the sight of our hungry eyes was a tonic to him.