音痴

おんち

Meanings

1. Noun, の-adjective, な-adjective tone deafness; amusia; having no ear for music
2. Noun suffix having no sense of (e.g. direction); being hopeless when it comes to (e.g. computers); -illiterate

Kanji

• 音 sound. Read as オン.
• 痴 foolish. Read as チ.

Example sentences

• 私は音痴だから歌いたくない。
  I don't want to sing, because I'm tone-deaf.
• あいつ、自分が音痴だってこと知らないんだよ。
  He doesn't realise that he's tone deaf.
• 僕、音痴なんだ。
  I'm tone-deaf.
• デジカメの使い方もわからないなんて、どんだけ機械音痴なんだよ。シャッター押せばいいだけだろ。
  You don't even know how to use a digital camera? How mechanically illiterate can you be? All you need to do is press the shutter.
• トムは音痴なので、めったに人前では歌わない。
  Tom is tone-deaf, so he rarely sings in front of others.

Words containing 音痴

• 方向音痴 (ほうこうおんち) (person with) no sense of direction
• 運動音痴 (うんどうおんち) having slow reflexes
• 味音痴 (あじおんち) unsophisticated palate

And 2 more.

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