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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
attuned
adjective
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▪ Moreover, response was often a matter of context, and of finely attuned social and cultural distinctions.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attuned

Attune \At*tune"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Attuned; p. pr. & vb. n. Attuning.] [Pref. ad- + tune.]

  1. To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.

  2. To arrange fitly; to make accordant.

    Wake to energy each social aim, Attuned spontaneous to the will of Jove.
    --Beattie.

Wiktionary
attuned
  1. 1 (context of a musical instrument English) tuned to the correct pitch 2 brought into harmony 3 adapted to a particular context v

  2. (en-past of: attune)

WordNet
attuned
  1. adj. brought to correct pitch; "his tuned violin"; "the attuned instruments" [syn: tuned]

  2. so adjusted as to be appropriate or brought into harmony; "an industry not attuned to the demands of the market"; "a remark keyed to the situation"; "charges finely tuned to the amount a student can afford" [syn: keyed, tuned]

Usage examples of "attuned".

The other acorn, although emplaced in a setting attuned to the first through both similarity and contagion, did not germinate as a result of the spell and, in fact, could not be located despite diligent search at the close of the experiment.

With voice far sweeter than thy dying notes, Spirit more vast than thine, frame more attuned To beauty, wasting these surpassing powers In the deaf air, to the blind earth, and heaven That echoes not my thoughts?

And thus it is small wonder that, in these ecologically disastrous times, many moderns are attempting to resurrect the natural wisdom of tribal awareness more attuned with the biosphere.

Nature draws us because it is in some way attuned to our feelings, so that it can reflect and intensify those we already feel or else awaken those which are dormant.

Bryan, his radar attuned to free entertainment, poked his head into the room from the hallway.

More than anything, she wanted to learn that dance, to weave her own sword in graceful circles, to feel her bare feet become so attuned to the moist grass below them that they could feel every blade and every contour in the ground.

His genius was more attuned to an overall vision, not to technical details.

A rose is attuned to the rhythm of the seasons, responding to the slightest changes in daylight and temperature, the angle of the sun, and the moisture in the soil.

If there was one thing that was highly attuned within me, it was a sense of imminent danger.

Be sure that not without reason did the ancients feign Eros to be the eldest of the gods, by whom the jarring elements of chaos were attuned into harmony and order.

Death could be no greater loneliness than this knowledge that you were forever cut off from other minds attuned to yours in a way that, once experienced, became forever necessary.

For this campaign, the mages had given him a crystal attuned to his squadron and flight leaders.

Formative Mind and so we are more readily attuned to those people with whom we are attached or associated, for the intertwining of our destinies is written into the mind centres of all concerned.

Whatever the Yuuzhan Vong were bringing across, it was attuned to their galaxy in a way its masters would never be.

The question before the group was as obvious as it was pressing, and the Jedi were well-enough attuned to each other to realize their next task was making a plan.