ATONAL Synonyms: 77 Similar and Opposite Words

atonal

adjective

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as in tuneless

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Recent Examples of atonal Riley, a Northern California native, who has always exuded a Zen-like geniality, was part of a generation of young American composers who had turned away from audience-alienating atonal music, which had been proselytized by their teachers in the science-minded postwar academy. —

William Robin, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2025 In fact, the entire film can't decide whether to embrace the silly or the serious — and yet somehow, that atonal balance works. —

Devan Coggan, EW.com, 3 Aug. 2025 In this new narrative, the history of atonal music’s liberation from the constraints of conventional Western music begins not in Europe but in Mexico. —

Julie Walsh, Artforum, 6 Dec. 2024 The songs’ shimmering melodies keep threatening to dissolve into the atonal, musically replicating the sense that oblivion lurks behind these walls decorated with Renoirs and Manets salvaged from civilization. —

Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 13 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for atonal

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Her aesthetics and tuneless vocals left audiences in awe and laughter.

— Raquel Willis, Time, 19 June 2025
For the rest of us, a real musical comedy is a cause for celebration; most are either too tuneless to be musicals or too dull to be comedies.

— Jesse Green, New York Times, 11 Apr. 2025