attuned

adjective

at·​tuned ə-ˈtünd 

-ˈtyünd

: aware of and attentive or responsive to something

—used with to

… designed to produce a … police department that is more attuned to the needs of individual communities …

—Clifford Krauss

… what's especially crucial is the mother's or caregiver's "sensitivity"—how attuned she is to her child's experience of the world.

—Pamela Druckerman

… disenchanted with a government that seems more attuned to the interests of big business and rural folk than to those of urban dwellers.

—Edwin O. Reischauer

Examples of attuned in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In Griffiths’ experience, customers are very attuned to all angles of a garment. —Miles Socha, Footwear News, 7 Nov. 2025

The gaydar of a founding mother and a Jesuit moralist will always be far more attuned than the intuition of a mob of reactionary haters. —Literary Hub, 4 Nov. 2025

Lilleaas makes clear, though, that Agnes is exquisitely attuned to the shifting moods of her less stable sibling. —Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025

So will Mornings With Ridge and Frost be a more traditional TV show or closer to social media feeds that younger audiences may be more attuned to? —Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 31 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1760, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for attuned

• importuned
• ballooned
• communed
• festooned
• impugned
• lampooned
• marooned
• crooned
• freund
• pruned
• spooned
• swooned