单词 | rhythm-deaf |
释义 | > as lemmasrhythm-deaf rhythm-deaf adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [adjective] > not unmusical1603 earless1605 mistuned1755 deaf1785 timber1815 untunable1851 rhythm-deaf1871 tone-deaf1894 amusical1906 1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 267 His remarks upon versification are..instructive to whoever is not rhythm-deaf. 1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 505/2 This writer has produced a single sentence seventeen lines long without a single slip in grammar. That so expert a syntactician should be rhythm-deaf is amazing. 2006 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 17 June to18 It's tone-deaf; or perhaps I should say rhythm-deaf. Actors take breaths in the middle of lines..or come down heavily on the wrong words. < as lemmas |
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