I don't want to sing, because I'm tone-deaf.
Source: tatoeba (256346)
Tone-deaf
Synonyms for "tone-deaf" (5 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Related terms
6 entriesderived
2 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
42 translations across 22 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- أَصَمّ لِلطَّبَقَات الصَوْتِيَّة adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Bulgarian
1 entries- немузикален adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Catalan
1 entries- dur d'orella adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 不能辨別音高的 /不能辨别音高的 adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
- 音盲的 adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Czech
1 entries- hudebně hluchý adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Dutch
2 entries- klankendoof adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
- toondoof adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Finnish
1 entries- sävelkuuro adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
French
3 entries- déconnecté adj (out of touch)
- hors-sol adj (out of touch)
- qui n'a pas d'oreille adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
German
4 entries- abgehoben adj (out of touch)
- geschmacklos adj (insensitive and offensive)
- keinen Draht (haben) adj (out of touch)
- ohne Bezug adj (out of touch)
Hebrew
1 entries- חירש לצלילים adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Hungarian
1 entries- botfülű adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Indonesian
3 entries- buta kenyataan adj (out of touch)
- buta nada adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
- tuli nada adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Italian
1 entries- che non ha orecchio adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Japanese
1 entries- 音痴 adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Malay
1 entries- pekak nada adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Norwegian
1 entries- tonedøv adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Portuguese
1 entries- amúsico adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Russian
3 entries- медве́дь на у́хо наступи́л adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
- не различа́ющий отте́нков зву́ка adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
- немузыка́льный adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Spanish
3 entries- desubicado adj (out of touch)
- insensible adj (insensitive and offensive)
- sin oído musical adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Swedish
3 entries- tondöv adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
- tondöv adj (out of touch)
- tondöv adj (insensitive and offensive)
Thai
1 entries- ซึ่งแยกแยะเสียงสูงต่ำของดนตรีไม่ได้ adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ведмідь на вухо наступив adj (unable to distinguish differences in pitch)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
I'm tone-deaf.
Source: tatoeba (2760928)
Tom isn't tone-deaf, is he?
Source: tatoeba (9016351)
Tom is tone-deaf, so he rarely sings in front of others.
Source: tatoeba (10179563)
Showing 4 of 10 available sentences.
Editorial Guides For "tone-deaf"
Professional Email Tone: Sound Clear, Polite, and Decisive
Practical phrase swaps to improve clarity and reduce friction in workplace emails.
De-escalation Language for Difficult Conversations
Use wording that lowers tension while preserving boundaries and forward progress.
Brand Voice Consistency: Keep Tone Unified Across Pages
Practical framework to keep product, marketing, and support copy aligned.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.