tuneful

[US]/'tjuːnfʊl/
[UK]/'tunfl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. melodic

Phrases & Collocations

tuneful melody

Example Sentences

She has a tuneful voice.

The tuneful melody filled the room.

He played a tuneful tune on his guitar.

The birds sang a tuneful chorus at dawn.

The orchestra performed a tuneful symphony.

Her tuneful humming filled the room with warmth.

The children sang a tuneful song together.

The tuneful sound of the piano echoed through the hall.

The singer's tuneful performance captivated the audience.

The tuneful lullaby put the baby to sleep.

Real-world Examples

The happy birds, the tuneful birds, How pleasant 't is to see!

Source: American Original Language Arts Third Volume

Trudy and Tallulah play a tuneful duet on the tuba and the flute.

Source: I love phonics.

What they found is that...as the repeats stacked up...the participants rated the sounds as being more tuneful.

Source: Science in 60 Seconds May 2018 Collection

The souls of the heroes were sad when she raised the tuneful voice.

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther

She sung a tuneful song while waiting for her husband.

Source: Pan Pan

Alpin with the tuneful voice: the soft complaint of Minona!

Source: The Sorrows of Young Werther

His was not a tuneful throat—but harsh melodies burst from it as he locked the barn and sprang up the hill to the house.

Source: Itan Flomei

After that, the little brown hood slipped through the hedge nearly every day, and the great drawing room was haunted by a tuneful spirit that came and went unseen.

Source: Little Women (Bilingual Edition)

This was the full springtime. The sunshine grew warmer and richer, new plants bloomed every day; the air became more tuneful with humming wings, and sweeter with the fragrance of the opening flowers.

Source: The Mountains of California (Part 2)

In the course of the forenoon, Hepzibah heard a note of music, which (there being no other tuneful contrivance in the House of the Seven Gables) she knew must proceed from Alice Pyncheon's harpsichord.

Source: Seven-angled Tower (Part 2)

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