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tuneless
adjective as in dissonant
adjective as in harsh
Strong match
Weak matches
- acrid
- asperous
- astringent
- cacophonous
- caterwauling
- clashing
- cracked
- craggy
- creaking
- croaking
- disagreeing
- discordant
- dissonant
- disturbing
- earsplitting
- flat
- glaring
- grating
- guttural
- hoarse
- incompatible
- jagged
- jangling
- jarring
- noisy
- not smooth
- off-key
- out-of-key
- out-of-tune
- rasping
- raucous
- rugged
- rusty
- screeching
- sour
- stridulous
- uneven
- unlevel
- unmelodious
- unmusical
- unrelenting
adjective as in scratchy
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- acrid
- asperous
- astringent
- bitter
- bleak
- cacophonous
- caterwauling
- clashing
- coarse
- craggy
- creaking
- croaking
- disagreeing
- dissonant
- disturbing
- dry
- earsplitting
- flat
- glaring
- grating
- grim
- guttural
- hard
- incompatible
- jagged
- jangling
- jarring
- noisy
- not smooth
- off-key
- out-of-key
- out-of-tune
- rasping
- rigid
- rough
- rugged
- rusty
- screeching
- severe
- sharp
- sour
- squawky
- strident
- stridulous
- uneven
- unlevel
- unmelodious
- unmusical
- unrelenting
adjective as in squawky
Example Sentences
She sat where he had left her, and was crooning again the weird tuneless dirge at which Marto had been appalled.
On thy voiceless shore The heroic lay is tuneless now—The heroic bosom beats no more!
Of a sudden the stillness of the night was broken into by a tuneless and discordant jangle of pealing bells.
Anything so helplessly tuneless as its present music I never heard, except mosquitoes and cicadas.
Its inflexible harshness and cacophany seemed like the voice of fate speaking out its tuneless perseverance in the night.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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