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

We parent under economic strain, social isolation, climate fear, school violence, and screen and social media saturation—and are still expected to be endlessly patient, emotionally attuned, nutritionally perfect, and developmentally exact. —Danielle Marie Holland, Parents, 27 Jan. 2026

Masli, who is assisted in real time by a live sound designer and other astute, attuned technical designers, sets out to achieve a lot. —Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 26 Jan. 2026

After the game, Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards acknowledged the heaviness of the situation even though he’s not closely attuned to the details. —Dave Campbell, Chicago Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026

Humans are especially attuned to visual information. —Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 26 Jan. 2026

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