Definitions for tone-deaf

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Spelling: [tohn-def]
IPA: /ˈtoʊnˌdɛf/

Tone-Deaf is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 225 anagrams from letters in tone-deaf (-adeefnot).

Definitions for tone-deaf

adjective

  1. unable to distinguish differences in pitch in musical sounds when producing or hearing them.

Origin of tone-deaf

First recorded in 1890-95

Examples for tone-deaf

Trilby the tone-deaf, who couldn't sing one single note in tune!

There are people who are colour-blind, people who are tone-deaf.

This “ surprising option” (as the tone-deaf Times headline calls it) is often viewed as caddish.

Some people are "tone-deaf," and they find it physically impossible to observe the law of contrasts.

Flo was not just mediocre: she was catastrophically tragic, tone-deaf, screechy and, as Randy Jackson would say, “pitchy, dawg!”

Some people are tone-deaf, and they find it physically impossible to observe the law of contrasts.

It is easy to understand that this master of harmony possessed no charms for a tone-deaf young man.

Some hated his tone-deaf assertion that he has behaved with “lightness” toward women.

The story writes itself: ‘President Proves She Is tone-deaf on Economy.’

Word Value for tone-deaf
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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