Untune

Quick meaning: Untune is a verb meaning (transitive) To cause (something) to be out of tune; to make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action.

Meaning

(transitive) To cause (something) to be out of tune; to make incapable of harmony, or of harmonious action.

Example Sentences

The Trumpet ſhall be heard on high, / The Dead ſhall live, the Living die, / And Muſick ſhall untune the Sky.

[…] do we not see in most collections that much time disunites, untunes, blackens, and by degrees destroys even the best preserved pictures.

How could communities, […] / Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, / But by degree, stand in authentic place? / Take but degree away, untune that string, / And, hark, what discord follows!

1800, Thomas Jefferson, letter dated 4 July, 1800, in Henry S. Randall, The Life of Thomas Jefferson, New York: Derby & Jackson, 1858, Volume 2, Chapter 11, p. 565, Our forte-piano arrived a day or two after you left us. It has been exposed to a great deal of rain, but being well covered was only much untuned.

Word Forms

• untunes
• untuning
• untuned

Synonyms for untune

Depending on context, synonyms include detune, distune, upset, disconcert, discomfit, discompose.

Antonyms for untune

Common opposites include tune up.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include discompose, discomfit, disconcert, upset, distune, disattune.

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