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Tuneless definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

TU'NELESS, a. Unmusical; unharmonious.
1. Not employed in making music; as a tuneless harp.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1594 1. not tuneful 2. not producing music • tunelessly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 unmelodious, unmusical. 2 out of tune. Derivatives: tunelessly adv. tunelessness n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Tuneless Tune"less, a. 1. Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical. `` Thy tuneless serenade.'' --Cowley. How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire! --Goldsmith. 2. Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps. 3. Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung. [R.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Tuneless music and voices do not sound pleasant. Someone walked by, singing a tuneless song. ADJ: usu ADJ n • tunelessly My dad whistled tunelessly through his teeth. ADV: ADV after v

Moby Thesaurus

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