Entry 27: Tonic
Original Sentence: Meaningful alonetime, it turns out, is a powerful need and a necessary tonic in today's rapid-fire world. Indeed, solitude actually allows us to connect to others in a far richer way. http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/16VvcI/:LdD$pve_:85zBQFqb/www.psychologytoday.com/articles/199802/the-call-solitude/ Source: Web
tonic |ˈtɒnɪk|
noun
1 a medicinal substance taken to give a feeling of vigour or well-being.
• something with an invigorating effect: being needed is a tonic for someone at my age.
2 short for tonic water.
3 Music the first note in a scale which, in conventional harmony, provides the keynote of a piece of music.
adjective
1 giving a feeling of vigour or well-being; invigorating: a tonic body shampoo.
2 Music relating to or denoting the first degree of a scale.
3 Phonetics denoting or relating to the syllable within a tone group that has greatest prominence, because it carries the main change of pitch.
4 relating to or restoring normal tone to muscles or other organs.
• Physiology relating to, denoting, or producing continuous muscular contraction.
DERIVATIVES
tonically adverb
ORIGIN mid 17th cent.: from French tonique, from Greek tonikos ‘of or for stretching’, from tonos (see tone) . Own Sentence: I need some of that tonic that he is taking - he looks sturdy everyday.









