out of tune
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.27 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
Not in agreement or in harmony (with something).
Example Sentences
- "The violins go out of tune in damp weather."
- "By the end of the song, I was completely out of tune with the guitar."
- "It is the lark that sings so out of tune, Straining harsh discords and unpleasing sharps."
- "The party’s social policy is out of tune with the values of most citizens."
- "[…] a house which is aping the town fashions of Germany and France, a prim, hideous, straight-up-and-down thing, plastered all over on the outside to look like stone, and altogether so stiff, and formal, and ugly and forbidding, and so out of tune with the gracious landscape, and so deaf and dumb and dead to the poetry of its surroundings, that it suggests an undertaker at a picnic, a corpse at a wedding, a puritan in Paradise."
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Music.