tuneless
unmelodious; unmusical.
making or giving no music; silent: In the corner stood a tuneless old piano.
Origin of tuneless
1Other 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 RyanOn thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now—The heroic bosom beats no more!
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 | Ministry of EducationOf a sudden the stillness of the night was broken into by a tuneless and discordant jangle of pealing bells.
The Riddle of the Mysterious Light | Mary E. HanshewAnything so helplessly tuneless as its present music I never heard, except mosquitoes and cicadas.
Arrows of the Chace, v. 2 | John RuskinIts 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
/ (ˈtjuːnlɪs) /
having no melody or tune
mainly poetic not producing or able to produce music; silent
Derived forms of tuneless
- tunelessly, adverb
- tunelessness, noun
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