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having notuneandunpleasant: 不成曲调的；不悦耳的tunelesswhistling刺耳的口哨声 Synonymscacophonous discordant dissonantformalorspecialized grating harsh(TOO STRONG) shrill strident(LOUD) Oppositeseuphoniousformal harmonious(MUSIC) melodiousformal tuneful SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesDescribing qualities of sound - audibly
- chuff
- clomp
- consonance
- crackly
- easy on the eye/earidiom
- euphonious
- fullness
- mellifluous
- melodic
- plaintively
- plaintiveness
- plangent
- pure
- raucously
- rhythmic
- sizzling
- timbre
- tinny
- tuneful
See more results » Examplesoftunelesstuneless He bathed and tried to keep up his spirits by singing in histunelessway, but it didn't help.FromProject Gutenberg Instead of which the insulted individual went into his corner again, and re-commenced playing histunelesspiano in the meekest possible manner.FromProject Gutenberg But the monotonous,tunelesssound seemed to go round, and round, and round inside her head.FromProject Gutenberg We loved her noble, musical tone, and yet we always enjoyed our father'stunelessroar.FromProject Gutenberg Never had a moretunelessvoice been heard or one managed with less art.FromProject Gutenberg They have chanted a depressing psalm or two to the mosttunelessof ancient ditties.FromProject Gutenberg It was a dismal service, with its dreary sermon and itstunelesshymns.FromProject Gutenberg Exactly thus had he often listened to it swishing through the crannies of high rocks,tunelessyet searching.FromProject Gutenberg In a cracked andtunelessvoice he began humming a roundelay, evidently intended to express gaiety and contentment.FromProject Gutenberg She began to hum softly, to herself, as it were, sometunelessair.FromProject Gutenberg The only answer to the noise was a thin,tunelesswhistle from the deck above them.FromProject Gutenberg Half an hour later she was standing by the spinet, absently touching thetunelesskeys, when a voice from the window startled her.FromProject Gutenberg Another answered it; another took it up; and the melancholy baying wavered from roof to roof--atunelessdirge.FromProject Gutenberg In addition, they had a brass band that playedtuneless, wailing music nearly every night, to the accompaniment of the howling and barking of dogs.FromProject Gutenberg When the wrestlers left the arena, hidden drums rumbled--throbbed out atunelessmiserere.FromProject Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |