atonal

From a- + tonal.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /eɪˈtoʊnəl/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /eɪˈtəʊnəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊnəl

atonal (comparative more atonal, superlative most atonal)

1. (music) Lacking a tonal center or key.
   • 2019, “(Gimme Some of That) Ol' Atonal Music”, performed by Merle Hazard ft. Alison Brown:

     Gimme some of that ol' atonal music / It lingers in my ears / Schoenberg and Alban Berg / Were the genre's pioneers

2. (linguistics) Not tonal, lacking tones.

• atonic

From Latin atonalis.

• IPA^(key): /atonaːl/, [ˈatˢoˌnæːˀl]

atonal

1. (music) atonal

• tonal

• atonalitet

• atonal on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

From a- +‎ tonal.

• IPA^(key): /a.tɔ.nal/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

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• Audio (France (Vosges)):

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atonal (feminine atonale, masculine plural atonals or atonaux, feminine plural atonales)

1. (music) atonal

• “atonal”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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atonal (strong nominative masculine singular atonaler, not comparable)

1. (music) atonal

• “atonal”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)
• “atonal” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “atonal” in Duden online

From a- +‎ tonal.

• Rhymes: (Brazil) -aw, (Portugal) -al
• Hyphenation: a‧to‧nal

atonal m or f (plural atonais)

1. (music) atonal (lacking a tonal center or key)
2. (linguistics) atonal (lacking tones)

• “atonal”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
• “atonal”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
• “atonal”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
• “atonal”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026

Borrowed from French atonal. Equivalent to a- +‎ tonal.

atonal m or n (feminine singular atonală, masculine plural atonali, feminine/neuter plural atonale)

1. atonal

From a- +‎ tonal.

• IPA^(key): /atoˈnal/ [a.t̪oˈnal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: a‧to‧nal

atonal m or f (masculine and feminine plural atonales)

1. (music) atonal

• “atonal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

atonal

1. (music) atonal