tuneless

[ toon-lis, tyoon- ]
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adjective
  1. unmelodious; unmusical.

  2. making or giving no music; silent: In the corner stood a tuneless old piano.

Origin of tuneless

1
First recorded in 1585–95; tune + -less

Other words from tuneless

  • tune·less·ly, adverb

Words Nearby tuneless

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How to use tuneless in a sentence

  • She sat where he had left her, and was crooning again the weird tuneless dirge at which Marto had been appalled.

    The Treasure Trail | Marah Ellis Ryan
  • On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now—The heroic bosom beats no more!

  • Of a sudden the stillness of the night was broken into by a tuneless and discordant jangle of pealing bells.

  • Anything so helplessly tuneless as its present music I never heard, except mosquitoes and cicadas.

  • Its inflexible harshness and cacophany seemed like the voice of fate speaking out its tuneless perseverance in the night.

    The White Peacock | D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

British Dictionary definitions for tuneless

tuneless

/ (ˈtjuːnlɪs) /


adjective
  1. having no melody or tune

  2. mainly poetic not producing or able to produce music; silent

Derived forms of tuneless

  • tunelessly, adverb
  • tunelessness, noun

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