tuneless

3 definitions found

tuneless - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Tuneless \Tune"less\ (t[=u]n"l[e^]s), a.
     1. Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical. " Thy tuneless
        serenade." --Cowley.
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              How often have I led thy sportive choir,
              With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire!
                                                    --Goldsmith.
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     2. Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps.
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     3. Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung. [R.]
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tuneless - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  tuneless
      adj 1: not having a musical sound or pleasing tune [syn:
             tuneless, untuneful, unmelodious] [ant:
             melodious, tuneful]

tuneless - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  35 Moby Thesaurus words for "tuneless":
     absonant, atonal, cacophonous, cracked, diaphonic, disconsonant,
     discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, dissonant, flat, grating,
     harsh, immelodious, inharmonic, inharmonious, musicless,
     nonmelodious, off, off-key, off-tone, out of pitch, out of tone,
     out of tune, raucous, sharp, shrill, sour, strident, unharmonious,
     unmelodious, unmusical, untunable, untuned, untuneful