Usually means: Insensitive to music or feelings.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word tone-deaf:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. tone-deaf: Merriam-Webster
  2. tone-deaf: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tone-deaf: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tone-deaf, tone-deaf: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tone-deaf: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tone-Deaf, tone-deaf: Wordnik
  7. tone-deaf: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tone-deaf: Wiktionary
  9. tone-deaf: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tone-deaf: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tone-deaf: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tone-deaf: Dictionary.com
  13. tone-deaf: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Tone-deaf: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. tone-deaf: Rhymezone
  16. tone-deaf: FreeDictionary.org
  17. tone-deaf: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. tone-deaf: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tone-deaf: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tone-deaf: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. tone-deaf: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tone-deaf: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tone_deafness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (tone-deaf)

adjective:  Unable to clearly distinguish the difference in pitch between different notes.
adjective:  (colloquial) Having little or a shallow or banal appreciation of music, whether or not as a result of tone deafness.
adjective:  (colloquial, figurative) Out of touch with the experience of ordinary people.
adjective:  (colloquial, figurative) Insensitive and offensive as a result of not noticing the current social context.

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