fine-tuned

1 of 2

past tense and past participle of fine-tune

fine-tuned

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adjective

ˈfīn-ˈtünd 

1

a

: precisely adjusted for the highest level of performance, efficiency, or effectiveness

a fine-tuned machine

His voice on "Always Late with Your Kisses" rolled along its cordillera of syllables like a fine-tuned sports car.

—Bryan Di Salvatore

b

of an artificial intelligence model : improved or adapted through the use of focused training and data

Companies have an increasing number of options for creating customized, fine-tuned AI models specific for their businesses …

—Maria Korolov

2

: improved or refined over time

His story is that of a man with an exquisitely fine-tuned creative imagination …

—Bruce McCall

It is one of the many recipes that are treasured family hand-downs or the fine-tuned ideas of Marilyn Lewis …

—Caroline Bates

Examples of fine-tuned in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Starship’s first 13 flights all flew suborbital trajectories by design, as SpaceX fine-tuned the launch vehicle’s design. — Josh Dinner, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2026

The preset low-speed compression and rebound damping settings can be fine-tuned further with twelve clicks of compression adjustment and sixteen clicks of rebound adjustment. — Andrew P. Collins, The Drive, 23 Sep. 2026

This set the stage for a co-evolutionary relationship where, over generations, cats began to produce meows that are more fine-tuned for human communication. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026

The world’s estimated 500 million pastoralists have fine-tuned the skill of living off the meat, dairy, fibers, and hides produced by their herds of sheep, cattle, camels, yaks, reindeer, and llamas. — The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1926, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for fine-tuned

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