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tuneless

tuneless adjective: having no pleasing tune; not tuneful.

Adjective

tuneless (comparative more tuneless, superlative most tuneless)

  1. Having no pleasing tune; not tuneful.
    • They insist they aren't a hardcore band, but their hectic pace and tuneless vocals are certainly in the hardcore vein.1982 August 14, Mary Ann Peacott, Liz Nania, “BT's In Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 5, page 12
  2. Silent or mute.

tuneless meaning in Malayalam

tuneless in Malayalam

unmelodious, discordant, dissonant
ഈണമില്ലാത്ത, രാഗമില്ലാത്ത, അപസ്വരമായ, ഇമ്പമില്ലാത്ത, ലയമില്ലാത്ത, സ്വരമേളനമില്ലാത്ത

Forms of tuneless

comparativemore tuneless
superlativemost tuneless

Origin of tuneless

From tune + -less.

Words formed from tuneless

Questions about tuneless

What does tuneless mean?
Tuneless means having no pleasing tune; not tuneful.
What is tuneless in Malayalam?
Tuneless in Malayalam is ഈണമില്ലാത്ത, രാഗമില്ലാത്ത, അപസ്വരമായ. See Tuneless meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is tuneless?
Tuneless is an adjective.

Words near tuneless in the dictionary

  1. tuned out
  2. tuned up
  3. tuneful
  4. tunefully
  5. tunefulness
  6. tuneless
  7. tunelessly
  8. tunelessness
  9. tunelet
  10. tunelets
  11. tunelike

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tuneless (page history and authors); tuneless (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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