English
Adjective
tone-deaf (comparative more tone-deaf, superlative most tone-deaf)
- Unable to clearly distinguish the difference in pitch between different notes.
- (colloquial) Having little appreciation of music, whether or not as a result of (1).
Translations
unable to distinguish differences in pitch
- Arabic: أَصَمّ لِلطَّبَقَات الصَوْتِيَّة (ʾaṣamm li-ṭ-ṭabaqāt aṣ-ṣawtiyya)
- Bulgarian: немузикален (nemuzikalen)
- Catalan: dur d'orella
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 音盲的 (yīnmáng de), 不能辨別音高的, 不能辨别音高的 (bùnéng biànbié yīngāo de), 不能辨别音高的 (bùnéng biànbié yīngāo de), 不能辨别音高的 (bùnéng biànbié yīngāo de)
- Czech:
- Dutch: klankendoof, toondoof
- Finnish: sävelkuuro
- French: qui n'a pas d'oreille
- German: ohne Gefühl für Tonhöhen, ohne musikalisches Gehör
- Hebrew: חירש לצלילים
- Hungarian: botfülű (hu)
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- Italian: che non ha orecchio
- Japanese: 音痴 (ja) (おんち, onchi)
- Korean:
- Lithuanian:
- Norwegian: tonedøv
- Portuguese: amúsico
- Russian: не различа́ющий отте́нков зву́ка (ne različájuščij otténkov zvúka), немузыка́льный (ru) (nemuzykálʹnyj), медве́дь на у́хо наступи́л (medvédʹ na úxo nastupíl) (idiom: "a bear stepped on ear")
- Spanish: sin oído musical
- Swedish: tondöv
- Thai: ซึ่งแยกแยะเสียงสูงต่ำของดนตรีไม่ได้ (sêung yâek yáe sĭang sŏong dtàm kŏng dondtree mâi dâai)
- Vietnamese: không có khả năng phân biệt chính xác các nốt nhạc khác nhau
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