tunelessly

Examples

• All

• Bobby Lee hummed tunelessly in the back seat.

  Fiction book (1998)

• A light breeze whistles over my cottage, and I hum along with it tunelessly.

  Fiction book (1996)

• "Then away you go to an island fair that lies in a Southern sea," he sang tunelessly.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Maria sat on a sofa, rocking slowly from side to side, humming tunelessly to herself.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Craig whistles tunelessly, every once in a while looking up and discreetly checking out Maxine.

  Fiction book (1999)

• I never actually sang, but I followed the words in the book, and I was doing so then, hearing the children around me happily and tunelessly singing and the music teacher's shrill soprano above it all.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Fuchs was back in the sensor bay, humming tunelessly to himself as he bent over a worktable strewn with parts from an infrared scanner.

  Fiction book (2001)

• By now, Alan must have recuperated sufficiently to feel poorly, and soon I heard his shower running and him singing lugubriously, tunelessly, the saddest and sweetest song in all the world about Danny Boy.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Whenever a will or a title search required his services, Pete would plod in, whistling tunelessly, trill his pudgy fingers at Delia, and proceed to the inner office.

  Fiction book (1995)

• As she worked in the kitchen, she hummed tunelessly to herself, adding to the cozy atmosphere.

Synonyms

U

unmelodiously

vstunelessly

8.4

In a way that sounds unpleasant

is the simple absence of melody or musical quality overall

U

unmusically

vstunelessly

7.5

In a way that sounds out of tune or has bad rhythm

focuses more on lacking melody specifically rather than general skill

Antonyms

M

melodiously

1 4.9

In a pleasant, musical way that sounds beautiful

How Musical

melodiously

1 4.9

discordantly

1 7.9

tunelessly

1 7.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology