in tune
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3.7
- idiom
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en sintonía
- It's important to be in tune with your partner's feelings in a relationship.
- sing in tune
- play in tune
- get in tune
I'm really feeling like I am now in tune with the one divine one.
- I'm really feeling like I am now in tune with the one divine one.
- So we are meant to live in tune with nature.
- I had blinders on and if if you weren't in tune with my vision, I couldn't see you.
- I've definitely felt a lot more in tune with our podcast audience this year.
- That's it. I mean, that's the key to being successful is just being in tune with yourself first,
- It's absolutely in tune with one another.
- I was very in tune with my like, my weight loss journey, you know?
Examples
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I've definitely felt a lot more in tune with our podcast audience this year.
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And so he was more in tune with the workers.
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Maybe this is just more in tune with human things.
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I feel like I need to be more in tune with like nature.
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So we are meant to live in tune with nature.
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But like, you know, it's cool to see how in tune with himself he is now.
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By doing this, students will learn to sing in tune and teach their future students to do the same.
Academic text (1992) -
After a slow start, Blair seems to be in tune with the team's starting unit.
Blog text (10) -
Everything seemed perfectly balanced, perfectly in tune.
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Compassion puts us more in tune with the interests and intentionalities of others.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
15
3.7
Agreeing with someone or fitting well with something
12
3.5
Working together with others to reach the same goal
10
6.0
Moving or acting exactly the same as others
6
3.5
Doing something at the same time and in the same way as someone else
3
6.0
A thing that is in agreement with another idea or fits its ideas
Antonyms
How Harmonious
Surface Forms
Morphology
The adjective phrase 'in tune' builds on 'in' (a state/location marker) plus 'tune' (literally a melody or the state of being correctly adjusted), so the meaning 'in agreement or harmony' is a metaphorical extension from musical/adjusted alignment. This connection is somewhat predictable for learners familiar with 'tune' as 'correct adjustment' but relies on a figurative mapping that an average B1 learner may not fully infer without prior exposure.
Etymology
The phrase in tune comes from music. When an instrument is in the right tune, it matches other instruments and sounds right. So, saying people are in tune means they are 'in agreement' or work well together.