attuned

adjective

at·​tuned ə-ˈtünd 

-ˈtyünd

: aware of and attentive or responsive to something

—used with to

… designed to produce a … police department that is more attuned to the needs of individual communities …

—Clifford Krauss

… what's especially crucial is the mother's or caregiver's "sensitivity"—how attuned she is to her child's experience of the world.

—Pamela Druckerman

… disenchanted with a government that seems more attuned to the interests of big business and rural folk than to those of urban dwellers.

—Edwin O. Reischauer

Examples of attuned in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Startups can stay attuned to their customer base by regularly soliciting and acting upon feedback, monitoring analytics closely, and maintaining open communication channels such as community forums or direct support lines. —Will Fan, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025

Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman, award-winning economist, author, and researcher, said that Black business owners always have to have their eye on the culture and stay more attuned to what could be profitable. —Ruth Etiesit Samuel, Essence, 4 June 2025

What is ‘emotionally safe parenting?’ With emotionally safe parenting, the goal is to be deeply attuned to your child’s emotional needs. —Reem Raouda, CNBC, 25 May 2025

Interviewers are more attuned than ever to canned or inauthentic responses. —Andrew Fennell, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1760, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for attuned

• importuned
• ballooned
• communed
• festooned
• impugned
• lampooned
• marooned
• crooned
• freund
• pruned
• spooned
• swooned