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As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.
Simon Beaufoy

Meaning of "tuneless" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF TUNELESS

tuneless  [ˈtjuːnlɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF TUNELESS

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

WHAT DOES TUNELESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of tuneless in the English dictionary

The definition of tuneless in the dictionary is having no melody or tune. Other definition of tuneless is not producing or able to produce music; silent.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH TUNELESS


awnless
ˈɔːnlɪs
boneless
ˈbəʊnlɪs
boonless
ˈbuːnlɪs
brainless
ˈbreɪnlɪs
chainless
ˈtʃeɪnlɪs
dimensionless
daɪˈmenʃənlɪs
directionless
dɪˈrɛkʃənlɪs
finless
ˈfɪnlɪs
frictionless
ˈfrɪkʃ ənlɪs
hornless
ˈhɔːnlɪs
machineless
məˈʃiːnlɪs
motionless
ˈməʊʃənlɪs
queenless
ˈkwiːnlɪs
sinless
ˈsɪnlɪs
spineless
ˈspaɪnlɪs
spleenless
ˈspliːnlɪs
stainless
ˈsteɪnlɪs
sunless
ˈsʌnlɪs
thornless
ˈθɔːnlɪs
winless
ˈwɪnlɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE TUNELESS

tune
tune in
tune out
tune someone grief
tune up
tune-up
tuneable
tuneably
tuneful
tunefully
tunefulness
tunelessly
tunelessness
tuner
tuner amplifier
tunesmith
tung oil
tungstate
tungsten
tungsten carbide

WORDS THAT END LIKE TUNELESS

bottomless
careless
clueless
faceless
homeless
hopeless
lifeless
loveless
nameless
nevertheless
nonetheless
priceless
senseless
shameless
sleeveless
tasteless
timeless
tireless
tubeless
useless
wireless

Synonyms and antonyms of tuneless in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «TUNELESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «tuneless» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of tuneless

Translation of «tuneless» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF TUNELESS

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

Translator English - Chinese

不和谐
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tuneless
570 millions of speakers

English

tuneless
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बेसुरा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير متناغم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

немелодичный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

tuneless
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সুরহীন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

peu mélodieux
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Tuneless
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

tuneless
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

調子外れの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

tuneless
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Tuneless
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không hòa hợp
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

இசையில்லாத
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ट्यूनलेस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

ahenksiz
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

tuneless
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

tuneless
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

немелодійний
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

tuneless
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

παραχονδρός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

zwijgend
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tuneless
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

tuneless
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of tuneless

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «TUNELESS»

The term «tuneless» is regularly used and occupies the 103.552 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «TUNELESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about tuneless

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QUOTES WITH «TUNELESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word tuneless.
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Simon Beaufoy
As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TUNELESS»

Discover the use of tuneless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to tuneless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Geoffrey Hartman Reader
'O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung . . .' The theme of hearing, of getting to the goddess through her 'modest ear' (OP, 2) is stated outright. This directness is relative, however. The meaning of Keats's lines, like those of Collins's, ...
Geoffrey H. Hartman, Daniel T. O'Hara, 2004
2
Oxford Thesaurus of English
... rhythmical; informal easy on the ear, foot- tapping, poppy; rare canorous, euphonic, mellifluent. wANTONYMS discordant, tuneless. tuneless. adjective tuneless whistling emanated from the kitchen: discordant, unmelodious, unmelodic ...
Maurice Waite, 2009
3
Silent Tunes
Tuneless strings Sobbing words the last of lifeso long in the world oyster of desires, melodies sung by tuneless strings still float over the tide so deepin the fragrance of spring breeze. Never heard pang-stringed night melancholy uttered by the ...
Spreadwingflamez Anand MG
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The Chamber of Maiden Thought (Psychology Revivals): ...
18 In this ode, the curtains are drawn back on the soul's own home, and the source of the thinking principle — the vision of beauty — is revealed. 0 Goddess! Hear these tuneless numbers, wrung By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear, ...
Meg Harris Williams, Margot Waddell, 2013
5
Tuscarora-English/English-Tuscarora Dictionary
... music (RC 26:7); -a'nw^''er^''cruke7: ra''nw^/'ere/'cru-- k^/' <he-make musie-' ness-less> he is songless. he is tuneless (HS). -a'nw^7erehkw -organ. dv.n.s. ye/' nw^/'- erehkhwa'' <one-plays a musical in- strument-instruntent> organ (HS).
Blair A. Rudes, 1999
6
John Keats, Updated Edition
Tuneless. Numbers: The. Ode. to. Psyche. T. he total shape of the Ode on Indolence is, as I have said, a dialectical one of advance and refusal, advance and refusal, advance and refusal—the shape of a stalemate. At the moment represented ...
Harold Bloom, 2009
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James Still: Critical Essays on the Dean of Appalachian ...
However, the second stanza, through use of unspecified antecedents, points out the “foils of clouds” which “men and plows attend” (¡2): The vibrant canes crowding marshy ground Are tuneless pipes heard by bleeding ears Through blighted ...
Ted Olson, Kathy H. Olson, 2007
8
The Female Grotesque: Risk, Excess and Modernity
Tuneless and Insane There is a strong desire on the part of the three Englishmen to end the story of Trilby with a kind of reparation. The reader of the novel, as well , seeks the comforts of a narrative closure. After a last, excruciating public ...
Mary Russo, 2012
9
Keats: The Myth of the Hero
In the first line-—“O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers”—the initial address directly to the goddess herself is the ancient poetic formula of epic and ode, which always called upon the god or goddess to hear and to recognize the reverence ...
Dorothy Bendon Van Ghent, Jeffrey Cane Robinson, 2014
10
The Shamanic Witch: Spiritual Practice Rooted in the Earth ...
realized that I was hearing him hum what I always thought of as his “tuneless tune.” He always hummed as he worked. I started to hum the song too. Suddenly, I was in a circle in the middle of a wood, surrounded by my power animals, as well ...
Gail Wood, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TUNELESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term tuneless is used in the context of the following news items.
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Sidhu's shairi, bumbling Saif and a tuneless Farhan: Please stop this …
In theory the IPL opening extravaganza sounds like a match made in heaven. Just the way a Virat Kohli-Anushka Sharma jodi is a match made in (paparazzi) ... «Firstpost, Apr 15»
2
Tuneless Britney Spears busted rehearsing without Auto-Tune
Britney Spears, the burned-out teen pop phenomenon who returned as a Las Vegas showgirl, has been busted rehearsing a song without voice enhancement, ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 14»
3
Pulp drummer thought 'Common People' was a 'tuneless dirge'
It sounded a bit of tuneless dirge at first, to be honest." He then went on to say that he thought Jarvis Cocker's initial demo recording of the track was a "load of ... «NME.com, Apr 14»
4
'Frozen,' 'Muppets' and Disney's tuneless marketing
Disney's Oscar-winning animated musical "Frozen" recently passed $1 billion at the worldwide box office. Almost $400 million of that came from North America, ... «Coeur d'Alene Press, Mar 14»
5
X Factor 2013: Tuneless Liddia Railton-Newby & Ryan Ruckledge …
Liddia Railton-Newby and Ryan Ruckledge certainly made a spectacle of themselves on tonight's X Factor audition show. «Unreality TV, Sep 13»
6
Tuneless, boring, sometimes scary: too many buskers lack the wow …
A perfect, sunny winter afternoon on Sydney's foreshore could be spoilt by only one thing: the desperate pleas of an amateur busker. Such was my fate on a ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 13»
7
Timewasting 999 calls: Police alerted to escaped hamster, poo in …
A barmy mum rang to say her daughter's three-year-old pal had “pooed” in a playhouse, youths were reported for tuneless carol singing, and one mother wanted ... «Mirror.co.uk, Aug 13»
8
A tuneless symphony of Syrian art
As the months go by and the Syrian crisis shows no sign of abating, Lebanon's cultural scene is gradually expanding to include a number of Syrian artists and ... «The Daily Star, Jul 13»
9
One Direction surprise fans with tuneless cover of 'My Heart Will Go …
One Direction surprise fans with tuneless cover of 'My Heart Will Go On'. These harmonies will probably make you and Celine weep. Read more on One ... «Clickmusic, May 13»
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Aashiqui 2: Tuneless tale
Mohit Suri may have done the impossible and crammed every single romantic movie cliché in “Aashiqui 2”. There are traces of the 1973 hit “Abhimaan” along ... «Reuters India, Apr 13»

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