Unmusical

Definition: Unmusical

Unmusical

Adjective

1. Lacking interest in or talent for music; "too unmusical to care for concerts"; "it is unfortunate that her children were all nonmusical".

2. Not musical in nature; "the unmusical cry of the bluejay".

3. Lacking melody.

Date "unmusical" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references)

Synonyms: Unmusical

Synonyms: dissonant (adj), nonmusical (adj), unmelodic (adj), unmelodious (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: melodious (adj), musical (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Aphony	Noun: aphony, aphonia; dumbness; Adjective: obmutescence; absence of voice, want of voice; dysphony; cacoepy; silence; (taciturnity); raucity; harsh voice; , unmusical voice; ; falsetto, "childish treble mute"; dummy.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Unmusical

English words defined with "unmusical": dissonant ♦ Immusical ♦ New World warbler, nonmusical ♦ unmusically ♦ wood warbler. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unmusical": JEWS. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Unmusical New York: A Brief Criticism of Triumphs, Failures & Abuses (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	JEWS-:HARP:, n. An unmusical instrument, played by holding it fast with the teeth and trying to brush it away with the finger.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Unmusical" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unmusical" is used about 15 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%	15	90,616

Language		Translations for "unmusical"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		jomuzikal. (various references)

Arabic		‏غير رنان. (various references)

Bulgarian		немелодичен (tuneless). (various references)

Czech		nemuzikální, nemelodický (tuneless), nehudební. (various references)

French		peu mélodieux (untuneful). (various references)

German		unmusikalisch (nonmusical). (various references)

Greek		άμουσοσ. (various references)

Hungarian		nem dallamos. (various references)

Pig Latin		usicalunmay

Portuguese		sem harmonia (noteless), pouco musical (noteless), pouco melodioso (noteless), pouco dado � música, dissonante (discordant, dissonant, grating, inconsonant, noteless, rough, tuneless). (various references)

Russian		немузыкальный (noteless). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nemuzikalan, nemuzički, nemuzičan, nemelodičan (tuneless). (various references)

Spanish		no musical. (various references)

Swedish		omusikalisk. (various references)

Turkish		uyumsuz (discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, ill-assorted, ill-matched, inadaptable, incompatible, incongruous, inconsonant, inharmonious, jarring, maladjusted, out of tune, tuneless, unadaptable, unadapted, unharmonious, untuned), geçimsiz (cantankerous, difficult, out of tune, peppery, quarrelsome), ahenksiz (atonal, discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, inconsonant, inharmonious, jazz, out of tune, tuneless, unharmonious, unmelodious, untuned). (various references)

Ukrainian		немузикальний (noteless, tuneless), немелодійний (tuneless, unmelodious). (various references)

Vietnamese		không du dương không thích nhạc; không biết thưởng thức nhạc (immusical), không có tính chất nhạc (immusical). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unmusical" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unmagical. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-i-l-m-n-s-u-u"
	-2 letters: alumins, alumnus, musical, uncials.
	-3 letters: acinus, alumin, alumni, amicus, animus, caulis, claims, cumins, cumuli, limans, linacs, linums, lumina, manics, miauls, mucins, muslin, umiacs, uncial.
	-4 letters: alums, amins, amnic, anils, aulic, cains, calms, cauls, claim, clams, clans, culms, cumin, incus, laics, liman, limas, limns, linac, linum, luaus, lunas, mails, mains, malic, manic, manus, mauls.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-i-l-m-n-s-u-u"
	+1 letter: calumnious.
	+2 letters: cumulations, unmalicious, unmasculine.
	+3 letters: calumniously, mucilaginous.
	+4 letters: accumulations, intramuscular, uncustomarily, unmaliciously.
	+5 letters: contumaciously, cumulativeness, miraculousness, mucilaginously, rambunctiously, supermasculine, ultramasculine.
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