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Meanings of unmusical in English

Not musical in nature.

Lacking melody.

Usage of unmusical in English
1
The green-room was made unmusical with contentions carried out in polite Billingsgate.
The Great German Composers
2
It is a great pity that the English nation is so unmusical.
In a German Pension
3
Mrs. Mutimer smiled in a grim way, then laughed- amostunmusical laugh.
Demos
4
While he performed it, his somewhat unmusical voice trembled with inward emotion.
Garman and Worse: A Norwegian Novel
5
Indeed, we can get intense emotion from sound which is entirely unmusical.
The Psychology of Beauty
6
And if some others are little more than a catalogue, unmusical, as:-
The Kiltartan Poetry Book; prose translations from the Irish
7
He sang in a low, not unmusical tone the death-chant of the Hurons.
Betty Zane
8
A harsh, unmusical sound; not an instrument, but an atonal, discordant human voice.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
9
It made any phrase which included that note sound terribly unmusical.
The Guardian
10
He has the habit of singing in his unmusical way on moonlight nights.
Bird Neighbors / An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred a...
11
In a voice loud and high-keyed, yet not unmusical, she cried:
The Title Market
12
Put those unmusical instruments in your pockets till we're clear of the town.
The Jolliest School of All
13
In these no single gift, or virtue, or idea, has an unmusical predominance.
Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays
14
With an unmusical laugh she stood up, shaking the letter to the floor.
The Lure of the Mask
15
As knowledge of the Hope-Jones methods spreads, these coarse and unmusical stops disappear.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building / Being an Account of Mo...
16
The voice was low, but every note was strained and unmusical.
The Man on the Box
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