Meaning of out of tune | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Not in the correct musical pitch.
2. Not in agreement or in harmony (with something).
   figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

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