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TUNEFULLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tunefully mean?
• TUNEFULLY (adverb)
The adverb TUNEFULLY has 1 sense:
1. in a melodious manner
Familiarity information: TUNEFULLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In a melodious manner
Synonyms:
melodiously; tunefully
Context example:
she sang melodiously
Pertainym:
tuneful (having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune)
Context examples
Adele sang the canzonette tunefully enough, and with the naivete of her age.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
They sang some rude chorus right tunefully as they walked, but their English was so coarse and rough that to the ears of a cloister-bred man it sounded like a foreign and barbarous tongue.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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