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

But Steele-Perkins, a member of the Magnum photo agency, was particularly attuned to discovering the alien, and the alienated, at home, in the United Kingdom. —Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2025

Turkey’s dual identity—rooted in the institutional West yet attuned to the aspirations of the global South—puts it in a unique position to champion reform in global governance. —Ekrem Imamoglu, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2025

Colwin is an Ephron contemporary, without the acrid humor, but of the same Manhattan kitchens and family dinner tables, perhaps more attuned to quiet, lonely suffering. —Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 9 Dec. 2025

Be emotionally attuned to your child’s needs and feelings. —Lauryn Higgins, Parents, 5 Dec. 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