attuned

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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

attuned

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past tense and past participle of attune

Examples of attuned in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

Boards are becoming increasingly attuned to this in their role of overseeing business continuity and enterprise value. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026

The pieces in front of them felt very much attuned to the way La Ligne also thinks about the modern woman. — Angela Tafoya, Vogue, 9 Sep. 2026

The rock kids, the funk kids, the disco-ers, the club rats are all fleetingly conjoined by one pair of highly attuned ears loitering on the streets. — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 7 Sep. 2026

The film begins with the gentle scratch of a pen drawing, and throughout, Kore-eda remains attuned to the sounds of the world around these girls. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1760, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for attuned

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