Tuneful

Definition: Tuneful

Tuneful

Adjective

1. Having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune.

Date "tuneful" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonym: Tuneful

Synonym: melodious (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: tuneless (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Poetry	Noun: poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring.
	Adjective: poetic, poetical; lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic; Noun: metrical; a catalectin; elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic; amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic; Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Tuneful

English words defined with "tuneful": Melic ♦ Tunable. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Careers for Music Lovers & Other Tuneful Types (Vgm Careers for You Series) (reference) Imaginations: Tuneful Fun and Recital Pieces to Expand Early Grade Harp Skills (reference) In Tuneful Accord: Making Music Work in the Church (reference) O Tuneful Voice: An Anthology of English Classical Songs for High Voice (reference) Our Tuneful Heritage: American Musical Instruments from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Tangled Tale	Carroll, Lewis	Have solved it in such tuneful verse, that I record both their answers in full.
Life, the Universe and Everything	Douglas Adams	On the way back they sang a number of tuneful and reflective songs on the subjects of peace, justice, morality, culture, sport, family life and the obliteration of all other life forms.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Tuneful" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tuneful" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	47	49,740

Expression using "tuneful": tuneful Nine. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "tuneful"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		melodioz (melodic, melodious), i melodishëm. (various references)

Arabic		‏متآلف النغمات, ‏رخيم (euphonic, liquid, mellow, melodious, singsong, soft). (various references)

Bulgarian		хармоничен (concordant, harmonic, harmonious, integrated, symphonious), музикален (music, musical, tunable), мелодичен (canorous, dulcet, euphonious, harmonious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodic, melodious, musical, orphean, songful, sonorous, sweet, tunable, tuny), звучен (deep-mouthed, full, liquid, melodious, orotund, resounding, ringing, rotund, round, smacking, soft, sonant, soniferous, sonorous, sounding, sweet, vibrant, vocal, voiced, voiceful). (various references)

Czech		melodický (canorous, cantabile, harmonious, melodic, melodious). (various references)

Dutch		zangerig, melodisch, melodieus. (various references)

Esperanto		melodia. (various references)

French		mélodieux, harmonieux. (various references)

German		melodisch (lyrically, melodic, melodious, musical, musically, tunefully, tuny), melodienreich. (various references)

Greek		μελωδικόσ (cantabile, mellifluous, melodic, melodious). (various references)

Hebrew		מלו�"י (melodic), ערב לאוזן (dulcet), � עים צלילים. (various references)

Hungarian		melodikus (melodic, melodious), dallamos (canorous, euphonious, melodic, melodious, musical, sweet, tunable, tuny). (various references)

Indonesian		merdu (dulcet, melodious, tunable). (various references)

Italian		melodioso (dulcet, harmonious, melodious), armonioso (clean, concordant, consonant, euphonious, harmonious, neat, shapely). (various references)

Manx		arraneagh (musical, singer, vocalist). (various references)

Pig Latin		unefultay

Portuguese		melodioso (arioso, canorous, harmonious, melodious, music, musical, songful, sonorous, sweet, tunable, tuny). (various references)

Romanian		melodios (canorous, harmonious, melodious, melodiously, musical, soft, sweet, tunefully), armonios (concordant, harmonious, harmoniously, interfluent, sweet). (various references)

Russian		гармоничный (balanced, concordant, harmonic, harmonious, spheral), мелодичный (canorous, fluted, harmonious, melodic, melodious, musical, songful, tunable). (various references)

Scottish		ceòlmhor. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		milozvučan (dulcet, euphonious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodious, orotund, smooth), melodičan (melodic, melodious, tunable), harmoničan (harmonic, harmonious). (various references)

Spanish		melodioso (dulcet, mellow, melodious), armonioso (harmonious, integrated). (various references)

Swedish		melodisk (canorous, melodic, melodious). (various references)

Turkish		uyumlu (accommodating, canorous, coherent, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentient, consequent, consonant, deferent, deferential, elastic, eurhythmic, harmonic, harmonious, melodious, responsive, rhythmic, supple, symphonious, unisonous, well-matched), hoş (affable, agreeable, beautiful, bonny, canny, charming, clean-cut, congenial, debonair, debonaire, delectable, delicious, delightful, desirable, elegant, enjoyable, fine, fragrant, handsome, jolly, kind, kindly, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prettily, pretty, sapid, smart, smooth, suave, subtile, subtle, sweetly, well, winning, winsome), güzel sesli, ahenkli (cadenced, canorous, coherent, concordant, congruent, congruous, consonant, euphonic, euphonious, harmonic, harmonious, homophonic, in accord, in order, melodic, melodious, symphonious). (various references)

Ukrainian		гармонійний (according, balanced, conceptual, harmonic, harmonious), музикальний (musical, songful). (various references)

Vietnamese		du dương (canorous, melodious, melody), êm ái (consonant, cushy, dulcet, gently, sweet, tender, tunable). (various references)

Welsh		soniarus (loud, melodious). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "tuneful": tunefully, tunefulness, tunefulnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tuneful" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: toneful, townful, trunkfuls, tubeful, Tubeuf. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "tuneful" (pronounced tuw"nful)
4	-n f u l	disdainful, gainful, mournful, painful, panful, scornful, sinful.
3	-f u l	apocryphal, artful, awful, baffle, baleful, bashful, beautiful, blissful, boastful, bountiful, careful, cheerful, colorful, deceitful, delightful, disgraceful, disrespectful, distasteful, distrustful, doleful, doubtful, dreadful, duffel, dutiful, eventful, faithful, falafel, fanciful, fateful, fearful, fistful, fitful, flavorful, forceful, forgetful, fretful, frightful, fruitful, gleeful, graceful, grateful, harmful, hateful, healthful, helpful, hopeful, houseful, hurtful, insightful, joyful, kerfuffle, lawful, lustful, masterful, meaningful, merciful, mindful, mistrustful, muffle, needful, neglectful, peaceful, pitiful, playful, plentiful, powerful, prayerful, purposeful, raffle, regretful, remorseful, resentful, reshuffle, resourceful, respectful, restful, riffle, rifle, rightful, rueful, ruffle, scuffle, shameful, shuffle, skillful, sorrowful, soulful, spiteful, stifle, stressful, successful, suspenseful, tactful, tasteful, tearful, thankful, thoughtful, trifle, triumphal, truffle, truthful, uneventful, unfaithful, ungrateful, unhealthful, unhelpful, unlawful, unsuccessful, untruthful, useful, vengeful, waffle, wasteful, watchful, willful, wishful, wistful, woeful, wonderful, worshipful, wrongful, youthful, zestful.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-f-l-n-t-u-u"
	-1 letter: fluent, unfelt.
	-2 letters: flute, lunet, unlet.
	-3 letters: felt, flue, fuel, left, lent, lune, lunt, lute, tule, tune.
	-4 letters: eft, elf, fen, fet, feu, flu, fun, let, leu, net, nut, tel, ten, tun, ulu.
	-5 letters: ef, el, en, et, ne, nu, un, ut.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-l-n-t-u-u"
	+2 letters: tunefully, unrestful.
	+3 letters: fraudulent, unaffluent, uneventful, ungrateful.
	+4 letters: dutifulness, hurtfulness, lustfulness, ruthfulness, sulfureting, tunefulness, unbeautiful, unhealthful.
	+5 letters: circumfluent, doubtfulness, fraudulently, fruitfulness, mournfullest, sulfuretting, trustfulness, truthfulness, uneventfully, unformulated, ungratefully, youthfulness.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
tuneful	3
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Tuneful

Definition: Tuneful

Tuneful

Adjective

Synonym: Tuneful

Synonyms within Context: Tuneful

Poetry

Crosswords: Tuneful

Commercial Usage: Tuneful

Books

Use in Literature: Tuneful

Tangled Tale

Carroll, Lewis

Life, the Universe and Everything

Douglas Adams

Usage Frequency: Tuneful

Expression: Tuneful

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Tuneful

tuneful

Modern Translation: Tuneful

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Derivations & Misspellings: Tuneful

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Rhyming with "Tuneful"

Anagrams: Tuneful

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