オンチ – Vocabulary details

オンチ

Meanings

Adjective (の)

Noun

1. tone-deafness; amusia; having no ear for music

Adjective (な)

2. tone-deaf; off-key

Suffix

3. having no sense (of something); being hopeless (when it comes to something)

Alt. forms

Pitch accent

オ

ンチ

Used in: 149

Composed of

オン

sound; noise; report; note

チ

foolishness; fool; moha (ignorance, folly)

Used in vocabulary (5 in total)

ホウコウオンチ

(person with) no sense of direction; poor sense of locality

ウンドウオンチ

having slow reflexes; being nonathletic; person who is not athletic

キカイオンチ

mechanical ineptitude; being hopeless with machines

アジオンチ

unsophisticated palate; inability to discern good and bad flavours

ミカクオンチ

having no sense of taste

Examples (4 in total)

僕ぼく、おんちオンチなんだ。

I'm tone-deaf.

私わたしはおんちオンチだから歌うたいたくない。

I don't want to sing, because I'm tone-deaf.

あいつ、自じ分ぶんがおんちオンチだってこと知しらないんだよ。

He doesn't realise that he's tone deaf.