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A substance with medicinal properties intended to restore or invigorate.

Example: We used to brew a tonic from a particular kind of root.

Tonic water.

(Massachusetts) Any of various carbonated, non-alcoholic beverages; soda pop.

Someone or something that revitalises or reinvigorates.

Pertaining to tension, especially of muscles.

Restorative, curative or invigorating.

Example: The arrival of the new members had a tonic effect on the team.

The first note of a diatonic scale; the keynote.

The triad built on the tonic note.

A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.

Pertaining to or based upon the first note of a diatonic scale.

Pertaining to the accent or stress in a word or in speech.

Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically being or relating to a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, i.e. a vowel or diphthong.