音痴

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Frequency:
1

Tone-deafness; inability to perceive or reproduce musical pitch or rhythm accurately; a person who is bad at music.

NounNoun Taking 'の'Na-Adjective

Examples

彼はカラオケで音痴だとバレてしまった。

It became obvious that he is tone-deaf at karaoke.

専門医によると、本当に音痴(失楽音症)の人もいるという。

According to specialists, there are people who truly have amusia (tone-deafness).

自分は音痴だと思っていたが、練習で少し上手くなった。

I thought I was tone-deaf, but I improved a bit with practice.

2

Used as a suffix meaning 'having no sense of' or 'being hopeless at' (e.g., 方向音痴 = directionally challenged; パソコン音痴 = computer-illiterate).

Noun (Suffix)

Examples

彼女は方向音痴で、地図を見ても迷ってしまう。

She has a terrible sense of direction and gets lost even with a map.

僕は料理音痴だから、簡単なレシピでも焦がしてしまう。

I'm hopeless at cooking, so I burn even simple recipes.

パソコン音痴の祖父にスマホの使い方を教えた。

I taught my computer-illiterate grandfather how to use a smartphone.