Usually means: Music without a key center.
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  1. atonal: Merriam-Webster
  2. atonal: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. atonal: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. atonal: Collins English Dictionary
  5. atonal: Vocabulary.com
  6. atonal: Wordnik
  7. atonal: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. atonal: Wiktionary
  9. atonal: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. atonal: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. atonal: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. atonal: Dictionary.com
  13. atonal: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Atonal: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. atonal: Rhymezone
  16. atonal: FreeDictionary.org
  17. atonal: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. atonal: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. atonal: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  20. atonal: Merriam-Webster

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. atonal: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Atonal: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See atonalism as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (music) Lacking a tonal center or key.
adjective:  (linguistics) Not tonal, lacking tones.

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