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tuneless
[ toon-lis, tyoon- ]
adjective
- unmelodious; unmusical.
- making or giving no music; silent:
In the corner stood a tuneless old piano.
tuneless
/ ˈtjuːnlɪs /
adjective
- having no melody or tune
- poetic.not producing or able to produce music; silent
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Derived Forms
- ˈtunelessness, noun
- ˈtunelessly, adverb
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Other Words From
- tuneless·ly adverb
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Example Sentences
She sat where he had left her, and was crooning again the weird tuneless dirge at which Marto had been appalled.
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.
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