out of tune
out of tune prepositional phrase: not in the correct musical pitch.
Prepositional phrase
- Not in the correct musical pitch.
- The violins go out of tune in damp weather.
- By the end of the song, I was completely out of tune with the guitar.
- Antonyms:
- in tune
- Not in agreement or in harmony (with something).
- The party’s social policy is out of tune with the values of most citizens.
- […] a house which is aping the town fashions of Germany and France, a prim, hideous, straight-up-and-down thing, plastered all over on the outside to look like stone, and altogether so stiff, and formal, and ugly and forbidding, and so out of tune with the gracious landscape, and so deaf and dumb...1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), chapter XXXI, in A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC, page 324
- Synonyms:
- out of step
out of tune meaning in Tagalog
out of tune in Tagalog
- not in correct musical pitch
- kagangkang, desapinado
Synonyms of out of tune
Antonyms
Questions about out of tune
- What does out of tune mean?
- Out of tune means not in the correct musical pitch.
- What is out of tune in Tagalog?
- Out of tune in Tagalog is kagangkang, desapinado. See Out of tune meaning in Tagalog.
- What part of speech is out of tune?
- Out of tune is a prepositional phrase.
Words near out of tune in the dictionary
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