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Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.
Anna Camp

Meaning of "tone-deaf" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TONE-DEAF

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TONE-DEAF

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Tone-Deaf is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES TONE-DEAF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Tone deafness

Tone deafness is the lack of relative pitch, or the inability to distinguish between musical notes that is not due to the lack of musical training or education. Tone deafness is the congenital form of amusia. It is also known as tune deafness, "tin ear", dysmelodia and dysmusia.

Definition of tone-deaf in the English dictionary

The definition of tone-deaf in the dictionary is unable to distinguish subtle differences in musical pitch.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TONE-DEAF

tone colour
tone control
tone control knob
tone deafness
tone down
tone language
tone poem
tone row
tone series
tone up
tone-setter
toned
toneless
tonelessly
tonelessness
toneme
tonemic
tonepad
toner
tonetic

WORDS THAT END LIKE TONE-DEAF

bay leaf
cloverleaf
deaf
gold leaf
half-deaf
leaf
loose-leaf
Maple Leaf
overleaf
partially deaf
prelingually deaf
profoundly deaf
semideaf
stone deaf
stone-deaf
tea leaf
the Maple Leaf
tobacco leaf
undeaf
word-deaf

Synonyms and antonyms of tone-deaf in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «tone-deaf» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TONE-DEAF

Find out the translation of tone-deaf to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of tone-deaf from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «tone-deaf» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

五音不全
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sordo
570 millions of speakers

English

tone-deaf
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

टोन बहरा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

لهجة الصم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

глухи
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

surdo
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

স্বন-বধির
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

ton sourd
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nada dungu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

unmusikalisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

音痴の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

음치
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Munafik
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

giai điệu điếc
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தொனி செவிடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

टोन-डेफ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

müzik kulağı olmayan
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tone -deaf
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

głuchy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

глухі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

afon
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παράφωνος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

toon- doof
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tondöv
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tonedøv
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tone-deaf

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4 QUOTES WITH «TONE-DEAF»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tone-deaf.
1
Anna Camp
Ultimately, I don't think you can teach a tone-deaf person how to sing. Some talents you're just born with, unfortunately.
2
Paula Fox
I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're tone-deaf, even though they're very fluent. It's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.
3
Tom Holland
I'm literally tone-deaf with singing. It's unreal.
4
Chris Smith
We've had a tone-deaf White House that does not want to be reasonable. President Obama won't meet with the Republicans. It's all his way.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TONE-DEAF»

Discover the use of tone-deaf in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tone-deaf and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Tone deaf and all thumbs?: an invitation to music-making
A neurologist and amateur musician explores the connections between neurology and music and provides an informative look into how and why people make music, how human beings hear music, and how musicians remember what they're playing
Frank R. Wilson, 1987
2
Tone Deaf in Bangkok: And Other Places
From her first bewildered hours to the moment that she reluctantly leaves, Janet Brown describes her experience of falling in love withand inThailands largest city.
Janet Brown, 2009
3
Ability Development from Age Zero
I also taught a six-year-old tone deaf child who was successfully able to develop talent. The tone deaf child was not born that way. When he was a baby, his mother or grandmother sang out-of-tune lullabies to him, and as he heard them he ...
Shinʼichi Suzuki, 1969
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The Biology of Musical Performance and Performance-related ...
Those who are tone deaf find it impossible to recognize or hum a melody, to sing in tune (or even to recognize that they are not doing so), regardless of whether they have had musical training in childhood. It is found in people of all mental ...
Alan H. D. Watson, 2009
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The Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and Plasticity
A comparison of right AF tracts identified in a representative normal and tone- deaf subject at the voxel size of 2.6 mm3.(A) Right AF tracts in a normal subject, showing superior (dark gray) and inferior (light gray) branches. (B) Right AF tracts  ...
Simone Dalla Bella, Virginia Burdet Penhune, 2009
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9784904925133_atarasie_content.pdf
On one hand, Human beings who are tone deaf have believed that the reality and the dream are different thing. On the other hand, Human beings who are tone deaf without awareness have believed that the reality and the dream are same ...
Satoshi Nitta
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Shinichi Suzuki: His Speeches and Essays
from Children and Talent (circa 1965) Any human being in the world will grow up to be tone-deaf if he is brought up from the day of his birth for twelve or thirteen years hearing every day only records of music played out of tune. This is for ...
Shinʼichi Suzuki, 1998
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Haptic and Audio Interaction Design: 6th International ...
However, although the users should sing with accurate pitch, it is difficult for the tone-deaf people to sing with accurate pitch. In this paper, a real-time vocal manipulation system is proposed to help tone-deaf people. The system consists of ...
Eric Cooper, Stephen Brewster, Hitoshi Ogawa, 2011
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9784904925096_evene_content.pdf
Chapter 25 How to realize about tone deaf of life Not only ruler but also ruled have fallen down into tone deaf without conscious in the modern human society with malice. Thus, They shall never be healed. Thus, We human beings have to cut ...
Satoshi Nitta
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World Music: Latin and North America, Caribbean, India, Asia ...
The composer and writer Paul Bowles, who in the 1950s owned an islet off the Sri Lankan coast, described the Sinhalese - Sri Lanka's majority population - as the only people he had ever come across who seemed completely tone-deaf.
Simon Broughton, Mark Ellingham, 2000

9 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TONE-DEAF»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tone-deaf is used in the context of the following news items.
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'Tone-deaf' Clinton campaign throws kids off playground
“We are not just a memorial and a park. We're a thriving community of 14,000 people. It's just tone-deaf to ignore that,” he added. Katz, who voted for Clinton and ... «New York Post, Jun 15»
2
Geraldo: 'Tone-Deaf' for DOJ to Announce Baltimore Investigation …
He called it “very tone-deaf of Washington not to reschedule” and “awful” for them to do it on this day, of all days. Watch the video below, via Fox News: ... «Mediaite, May 15»
3
Cavaliers' Playoff Video Is Called 'Tone-Deaf,' 'Awful'
A promotional video shown at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland during the Cavaliers vs. Bulls playoff game on Wednesday is being called "tone-deaf" and ... «NPR, May 15»
4
Uber Publishes 'Tone-Deaf' Blog Post For Teacher Appreciation
Transportation service Uber is being criticized as “tone-deaf” for a blog post praising itself for offering underpaid teachers part-time jobs as drivers. The post ... «Huffington Post, Oct 14»
5
'New York Times' apologizes for 'tone-deaf' Shonda Rhimes article
Early Monday afternoon, I spoke to the culture editor, Danielle Mattoon. She told me that arts and culture editors are well aware of the response to the piece, and ... «USA TODAY, Sep 14»
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'Tone-Deaf' Sexist Ad Is Biting Tech Conference In The Butt
If tech industry sexism were a development bug, it would have been fixed long ago. Instead, embarrassing and tone-deaf ideas like the sexist party invitation ... «Huffington Post, Jun 14»
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Gwyneth Paltrow: Tone-deaf, even about trolls
no matter how often her name has been linked to the words “tone deaf,” she's always seemed to sail serenely beyond it all, a woman too busy ordering organic ... «Salon, May 14»
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Aloe Blacc Proves Beats Headphones Are Shit With Tone-Deaf
Aloe Blacc sings that "The Man" song used in all the Beats Audio headphone commercials. Fans in attendance at tonight's NBA All-Star Game festivities in New ... «Deadspin, Feb 14»
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Here's Jamie Dimon's Opulent, Maddeningly Tone-Deaf Christmas …
Jamie Dimon, CEO of banking giant JPMorgan, has a holiday card tradition like many other famous Americans. But unlike most of them, he's one of the most ... «TIME, Dec 13»

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