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out of tune en · ADP

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. Not in the correct musical pitch.
   • It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps. c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]:
   • The violins go out of tune in damp weather.
   • By the end of the song, I was completely out of tune with the guitar.
2. (figuratively) Not in agreement or in harmony (with something).
   • […] 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 and dead to the poetry of its surroundings, that it suggests an undertaker at a picnic, a corpse at a wedding, a puritan in Paradise. 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:
   • The party’s social policy is out of tune with the values of most citizens.

Antonyms

in tune

Relateds

untune

Synonyms

off-pitch · out of step · pitchy

Translations (35)

cmn 不協調的 /不协调的 (not in agreement or in harmony) · ru фальши́во (not in correct musical pitch) · pl rozstrojony (not in correct musical pitch) · hu hamis (not in correct musical pitch) · pl fałszywy (not in correct musical pitch) · mi rangirua (not in correct musical pitch) · cmn 走音的 (not in correct musical pitch) · tl desapinado (not in correct musical pitch) · fr faux (not in correct musical pitch) · de verstimmt (not in correct musical pitch) · mi orotaha (not in correct musical pitch) · mi tangihē (not in correct musical pitch) · el παράφωνος (not in correct musical pitch) · sv falskt (not in correct musical pitch) · cmn 跑調的 /跑调的 (not in correct musical pitch) · eo misagorda (not in correct musical pitch) · nb falsk (not in correct musical pitch) · es desafinado (not in correct musical pitch) · cmn 不和諧的 /不和谐的 (not in agreement or in harmony) · sv med fel tonhöjd (not in correct musical pitch) · it scordato (not in correct musical pitch) · cmn 不一致的 (not in agreement or in harmony) · tl kagangkang (not in correct musical pitch) · gd ana-ghleusta (not in correct musical pitch) · it stonato (not in correct musical pitch) · fi falski (not in correct musical pitch) · pt desafinado (not in correct musical pitch) · fi epäpuhdas (not in correct musical pitch) · fi epävireinen (not in correct musical pitch) · es fuera de tono (not in correct musical pitch) · fi epäsointuinen (not in agreement or in harmony) · grc ἀνάρμοστος (not in correct musical pitch) · nl ontstemd (not in correct musical pitch) · cmn 音高不準的 /音高不准的 (not in correct musical pitch) · is hjáróma (not in correct musical pitch)