tuneful
Americanadjective
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full of melody; melodious.
tuneful compositions.
- Synonyms:
- sweet, dulcet, harmonious, musical
- Antonyms:
- discordant
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producing musical sounds or melody.
adjective
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having a pleasant or catchy tune; melodious
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producing a melody or music
a tuneful blackbird
Other Word Forms
- tunefully adverb
- tunefulness noun
- untuneful adjective
- untunefully adverb
Etymology
Origin of tuneful
Example Sentences
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That sort of line is as close as the movie gets to being funny, and the songs, while reasonably tuneful, are bland aural wallpaper.
His tuneful whistle echoes through the corridor, harmonizing with itself before fading into silence.
From Literature
The band’s relationships to music and their own voices have changed with age: ragged choirboys as they are now, but still tuneful and beautiful.
From Los Angeles Times
It began with the score’s hit, “A Simple Song,” Bernstein at his most tuneful, even saccharine.
From Los Angeles Times
The sound is raw yet tuneful, with scratchy electric guitars and whomping live drums in place of the synth-ier, more intricately layered productions of “Love Hate Music Box.”
From Los Angeles Times
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