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

Moreover, the Fed is highly attuned to the downside risks to a labor market caught in a fragile ‘low hiring, low firing’ equilibrium. —Hugh Cameron, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Oct. 2025

Good Fortune is wholly attuned to Reeves’s unique serotonin-releasing talents. —Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 17 Oct. 2025

Having collaborated with private companies, public agencies, and nonprofit organizations, The Rise Group is attuned to the ways different sectors influence and depend on one another. —Wyles Daniel, USA Today, 17 Oct. 2025

As was the case in Hulu’s The Girl from Plainville, Macmanus is attuned to the quiet perils of teenage life. —Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 15 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