Unacoustic

Quick meaning: Unacoustic is an adjective meaning Having poor acoustic properties; not conducive to the projection of sound; tending to muffle or muddy sounds.

Meaning

Having poor acoustic properties; not conducive to the projection of sound; tending to muffle or muddy sounds.

More Meanings

1. Lacking sound or sonority; silent or muffled.
2. (physics) Having a frequency outside the range of audible sounds.
3. (music) Not acoustic; electronically generated or amplified.

Example Sentences

This unacoustic vastness swallows the earth sounds and produces the effect of silence upon the soul.

The deaf-mutes from a separate community among the hearing people. The most interesting question in their psychology is: What is their conception of the outer world? Of an unacoustic, mute world?

No wonder, for the pulpit had been placed in exactly the most inaudible situation, and the Hall, however well calculated for purposes of feeding, and holding examinations, was a most unacoustic place to speak in.

Few are like the Scottish fiddle-maker Amaryllis once met who had spent a cheerful life making violins out of oak (an impossibly unacoustic wood) on the happy premise that birds sing more beautifully in oak trees.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include insonorous, unlistenable, unreflecting, inaudible, unmellifluous, untuneful.

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