untune

Other forms of untune

past tense

untuned·

present participle

untuning·

third person

untunes·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about untune

What does untune mean?

untune means "cause to lose one's composure". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in untune?

untune has 2 syllables: un-tune. The stress falls on "tune".

What is another word for untune?

Close synonyms include upset, discompose, disconcert, discomfit. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of untune?

The recorded antonyms are tune.

Is untune a common word?

untune is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.