Usually means: Inability to distinguish musical pitches.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word tone deaf:

General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. tone deaf: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tone-deaf: Merriam-Webster
  3. tone-deaf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tone-deaf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tone-deaf, tone-deaf: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tone-deaf: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tone-Deaf, tone-deaf: Wordnik
  8. tone-deaf: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. tone-deaf: Wiktionary
  10. tone-deaf: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tone-deaf: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tone-deaf: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tone-deaf, tone deaf: Dictionary.com
  14. tone-deaf: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tone-deaf, Tone deaf: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. tone-deaf: Rhymezone
  17. tone-deaf: FreeDictionary.org
  18. tone-deaf: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. tone-deaf: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tone-deaf: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tone deaf, tone-deaf: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tone Deaf, tone-deaf: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Tone deaf)

▸ adjective:  Alternative form of tone-deaf. [Unable to clearly distinguish the difference in pitch between different notes.]

Similar:
deaf, deafened, tin ear, illiterate, unmusical, unintelligent, incompetent, deaf person, tuneless, insensitivity, more...

Opposite:
pitch perfect

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Similar:
deaf, deafened, tin ear, illiterate, unmusical, unintelligent, incompetent, deaf person, tuneless, insensitivity, more...

Opposite:
pitch perfect



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