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tone-deafly

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
tone-deaf-ly
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a tone-deaf manner.

Etymology

From tone-deaf + -ly.

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more tone-deafly (comparative) most tone-deafly (superlative)

Questions

What does tone-deafly mean?
In a tone-deaf manner.
Where does tone-deafly come from?
From tone-deaf + -ly.

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