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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tuneless \Tune"less\, adjective
1. Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical. '' Thy tuneless serenade.'' --Cowley.
How often have I led thy sportive choir, With tuneless pipe, beside the murmuring Loire! --Goldsmith.
2. Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps.
3. Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung. [R.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tuneless
adjective: not having a musical sound or pleasing tune [syn: {untuneful}, {unmelodious}] [ant: {tuneful}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
35 Moby Thesaurus words for "tuneless": absonant, atonal, cacophonous, cracked, diaphonic, disconsonant, discordant, disharmonic, disharmonious, dissonant, flat, grating, harsh, immelodious, inharmonic, inharmonious, musicless, nonmelodious, off, off-key, off-tone, out of pitch, out of tone, out of tune, raucous, sharp, shrill, sour, strident, unharmonious, unmelodious, unmusical, untunable, untuned, untuneful
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