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melodious

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of, relating to, or containing a pleasing succession of sounds; tuneful.
  • adjective Agreeable to hear.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Containing or characterized by melody; musical; agreeable to the ear; characterized by a pleasant succession of sounds.
  • Producing agreeable, especially musical, sounds.
  • Synonyms Tuneful, sweet, dulcet. See euphony.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Containing, or producing, melody; musical; agreeable to the ear by a sweet succession of sounds.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having a pleasant melody or sound; tuneful.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune
  • adjective containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody

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Examples

  • Manuel bent down and knocked at the entrance, calling softly in melodious Spanish.

    Walking the walk, talking the talk - a dream in Baja 2007

  • Spring stole upon us this week ... the air was so warm and sweet it was intoxicating, it pulled you outside into the sunshine, blinking and stretching, and urged you in melodious tones to sit down and put your feet up and just breathe ...

    Spring regina doman 2007

  • Manuel bent down and knocked at the entrance, calling softly in melodious Spanish.

    Walking the walk, talking the talk - a dream in Baja 2007

  • Spring stole upon us this week ... the air was so warm and sweet it was intoxicating, it pulled you outside into the sunshine, blinking and stretching, and urged you in melodious tones to sit down and put your feet up and just breathe ...

    Archive 2007-03-01 regina doman 2007

  • No teacher could have made Helen Keller sensitive to the beauties of language and to the finer interplay of thought which demands expression in melodious word groupings.

    The Story of My Life Annie Sullivan 1905

  • The air is crisp and keen; gay cries and clinking pattens tinkle in melodious confusion from the street below.

    In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World 1891

  • Yellow lightnings played around the vast dome of Mont Blanc, silent as the snow-clad rock they illuminated; all was bare, wild, and sublime, while the singing of the pines in melodious murmurings added a gentle interest to the rough magnificence.

    III.8 1826

  • He added that I vividly recall the melodious voice of Raja Begum and histrionics of Fida Mohammad Hussnain.

    Kashmir Academy of Art,Culture felicitates five Personalities of Valley,Queen of Songs RajBegum also 2009

  • Lucho, baby, Luis said, as if the name were melodious, Lucho Libre, and he affectionately slapped the big man.

    Their Dogs Came With Them Helena María Viramontes 2007

  • Others who more delighted to write songs or ballads of pleasure, to be song with the voice, and to the harpe, lute, or citheron & such other musical instruments, they were called melodious Poets [_melici_] or by a more common name _Lirique_ Poets, of which sort was _Pindarus, Anacreon_ and

    The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham

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