| Benevolent | Suggestive of goodwill, kindness, generosity |
| Bombastic | Marked by pretension; speech or writing meant to sound important or impressive but which is not meaningful or sincere; pompous |
| Burlesque | Involving ludicrous or mocking treatment of a solemn subject |
| Derisive | Ridiculing mocking |
| Effusive | Expressing feeling of gratitude, approval, or pleasure in an unrestrained or heartfelt matter |
| Facetious | Treating serious issues with deliberatively inappropriate humor; flippant |
| Frivolous | Superficial, without serious purpose or value, silly, giddy |
| Haughty | Proud and vain to the point of arrogance |
| Hollow | Meaningless, without significance, empty |
| Lyrical | Expressing a poet’s inner feelings; emotions; full of images; song-like |
| Lugubrious | Full of sorrow or sadness; sad in an exaggerated or insincere matter |
| Melodramatic | Emotional or dramatic in a way that is very extreme or exaggerated |
| Ostentatious | Displaying knowledge or wealth that is meant to attract attention, admiration, or envy |
| Petulant | Ill-humored; having or showing the attitude of people who get angry and annoyed when they do not get what they want |
| Quizzical | Odd, eccentric, amusing |
| Reverent | Treating a subject with honor and respect |
| Romantic | Fanciful, impractical, unrealistic; dominated by idealism |
| Turgid | Excessively embellished in style or language; pompous; bombastic |
| Wry | Slightly sarcastic in a humorous way; clever with a bit of irony |
| Woeful | Wretched, unhappy |
Tone Words for Macbeth
September 9, 2019