: 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
attuned
2 of 2past tense and past participle of attune
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“Attuned.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/attuned. Accessed 27 Oct. 2026.
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