Meaning of overtuned | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Tuned or adjusted so as to be excessive (in terms of some quality), especially
2. Tuned or adjusted so as to be excessive (in terms of some quality), especially:
3. Of a string or string instrument: tuned so as to be excessively tight.
4. Of an engine: tuned so as to be more powerful than intended by the manufacturer.
5. Of a sense or mode of perception: trained so as to be excessively sensitive.
6. Of a character, item, ability, etc.: excessively powerful; overpowered.
7. Of a raid or similar challenge: excessively difficult.
8. Excessive in some respect (without any implication of having been tuned).
   broadly, figuratively

Examples

“The process is overtuned. . . . Now it's gotten to the point where it takes sixteen months to get out any release of any Microsoft product. They really can't steer that ship very fast.”

“"What are you talking about?" My voice was higher than usual, overtuned. I couldn't move. "What are you saying?"”

“Senior editor Wes Fenlon theorized overtuned motion blur could be an attempt to cover up an inconsistent framerate, but Frontiers ran pretty smoothly to my eye, so the blur either did its job or looked that way for stylistic reasons.”

“It was not until he was lying in the hospital bed at St Stephen's with his hand and arm fished like a broken spar that he realized his nerves were wound up tauter than an overtuned violin: another fraction of a turn, it seemed, and something would snap.”

“Patiently — as patiently as he could with nerves that felt like overtuned guitar-strings — Clay said, "There's nothing wrong with it, honey. I just want to get rolling. I don't think we're going to see anyone, anyway. I think it's too soon."”

“A surge of tight restriction emanates from the locale as tense muscles quiver like overtuned violin strings, and the feeling of shifting the kneecap back in place is very similar to cracking a knuckle (and in fact can produce an audible pop, adding a delightful aural component to the mix).”

“He takes it out on her favourite toy, a hippo, and, my, there's anger there, the beseeching "be normal" anger of a parent of course but, given Rosie's problems, it's like watching an overtuned Stradivarius, one ratchet suddenly turned too tight, and everything will collapse in a welter of discord and broken spruce.”

“There was the high-pitched rev of an overtuned engine, and Rosalie roared out of the shed and headed for the gully of the little stream by the dry-stone wall.”

“Then he heard the familiar revving of the overtuned engine and went to the center window. The Flamer was pulling up curbside on the street below Doug was downstairs and outside in a flash.”

“So don't expect to hear the growl of an overtuned V-8, the bark of an amplified exhaust, the screech of tires digging for grip. Mr. Zimmer wants to take you to a different place.”

“Had she just caught a reflection from somewhere else? A night bird? Or were her overtuned and hypervigilant senses playing games with her mind?”

“Freud, according to a poster I once owned, reckoned that the average redblooded male thinks about sex every three minutes, but in Afghanistan I hardly thought about it at all. This realisation had only dawned on me when I left the country. My first contact with non-Muslims had been in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent, where, according to my overtuned antennae, the streets seemed weirdly crammed with blondes in miniskirts.”

“Many young mediums struggle with anxiety, as a result of their overtuned senses and the pain that comes with feeling dismissed or alienated.”

“I think honestly some of the abilities we gave Dash may have been slightly overtuned.”

“The Hearthstone developers wanted to capture that fantasy within the context of a head-to-head CCG, and the results were outstandingly overtuned. In the hours after Ashes of Outland dropped, Demon Hunter was the only class in the game with a positive win rate.”

“As mentioned, Killjoy will probably feel excessively overtuned at the lowest ranks of competitive play thanks to the lack of environmental awareness seen in beginner players.”

“In a thread that's gained some traction on the Overwatch subreddit, an inquiry about how players feel a short time after the Doomfist changes went live has revealed that players think this hero is a bit overtuned.”

“For a while, there was a concern that nobody could beat Riven, that Last Wish was simply too overtuned for day-one raiders. But then the first crew beat the boss around power level 550, and it became clear that Bungie had done something amazing.”

“When Shadowlands launched back in November, the challenges of an initially overtuned Castle Nathria raid, seemingly endless Torghast runs, and the introduction of the Covenant system were enough to keep us all busy.”

“In the short term, there is at least one quick fix coming to rebalance things after the 1.1.0 patch. Piepiora said the team felt that nightmare dungeons in the game are "dramatically overtuned" and that tier 100 nightmare dungeons are "excruciatingly difficult" for most classes, resulting in players pursuing very specific builds.”

“There was a baby photo, those school portraits with the rainbow background, a big Afro playing basketball, a tuxedo-and-date prom, a couple of graduations, blah, blah, blah. Corny, yes, but these photo montages always touched Myron, exploiting his overtuned sensitivity like a sappy Hallmark commercial.”

“We also accept what we are told in the same breath, that he was certifiably insane. Because according to the received wisdom of popular culture, this is the inevitable consequence of having a precociously overtuned mind.”

“The dusty tomes of the Warcraft legendarium imply that C'Thun is one of the most powerful beings in the universe; he commands an army of obsidian golems and routinely devours raid members whole with one of his many toothy maws. Still, the amount of damage he was soaking up seemed a bit overtuned.”

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