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

The Irish had a history of facing discrimination, so Sullivan was more attuned to the mistreatment of Black people in America. —Olivia B. Waxman, Time, 21 July 2025

Through this process, the soul becomes more attuned to divine energy, reaching a state of harmony with the higher dimensions. —Ascend Agency, Chicago Tribune, 27 June 2025

With Wall Street now more attuned to economic risks like Trump’s trade war, the tariffs that will go into effect on Thursday may get more scrutiny. —Jason Ma, Fortune, 4 Aug. 2025

The actors all seem perfectly attuned to this slippery wavelength, while the design contributors — notably cinematographer Kenji Maki, art director Takashi Sasaki, costume designer Kazuhiro Sawataishi and visual effects chief Nobutaka Douki — do exemplary work. —Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Aug. 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