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attuned

Verb
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Attuned means adjusted, harmonized, or made responsive to something, especially another person’s feelings, a rhythm, an environment, or a purpose.

Detailed Definition
Attuned means set in harmony, as if tuned to the same pitch. Kipling uses it to suggest that the earth is naturally aligned with Creation and responds to it like an instrument.
Example
Example in poetry:
“And, attuned since Creation / To perfect accord” means brought into harmony or responsive alignment; Shakespeare’s Lorenzo speaks of “the music of the spheres” in The Merchant of Venice; Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” imagines the mind deeply interfused with nature; contemporary poems may show a speaker attuned to traffic, birdsong, grief, or the rhythms of a changing climate
Additional Notes
Although related to “tune,” the use of “attuned” here is somewhat specialized and literary, not everyday speech.; Found in the poem, An Astrologer's Song by Rudyard Kipling
Also Known As
harmonized synchronized aligned
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