Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Played or sung in an animated manner; giving lively utterance to a lilt or song.
Wiktionary
- adj. Having a lilt; with energy, spirit and sprightliness; lively and cheerful.
- n. type of lively singing without any musical accompaniment, where the tune itself is sung.
- v. present participle of lilt.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. having a light rhythmical cadence.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by a buoyant rhythm
Examples
“We happen into a traditional jam session with the legendary Mary Bergin on tin whistle (the instrument some hold responsible for making the Titanic sound track the bestselling of all time), Johnny "Ringo" McDonagh on Bodhran drum (he was a solo in Riverdance for four years and one of the groundbreakers in the musical vocabulary of the instrument) and Steve Sweeney lilting, which is a kind of mouth music along the lines of a Gaelic Bobby McFerrin.”
“She laughed, softly and with a kind of lilting warmth.”
Salvage for the Saint
“I try not to overuse the word "lilting" when describing a band's music; it's one of those adjectives that really has to be earned by a certain sweet, heartfelt buoyancy in the way a song is performed.”
“What happens when all flags burn together?" he wonders in Jeopardy, over lilting guitar and cheerful trumpets.”
“She placed the slimy cud behind her, picking up another shock of lazy, lilting grasses — she selected two, let the remains scuttle greenily in the wind, placed a leafy scythe to my lips.”
“The real star is director Ava Roy, whose masterful use of the entire island was both subtle and innovative; at times organic (the gravedigger scene was on a small mountain of rubble) and striking (Ophelia's madness was played inside a wide open hospital room threaded with white twine, empty birdcages, and lilting bird down.)”
The Huffington Post: Lauren Gunderson: Wild and Whirling Words: An Audacious Hamlet on Alcatraz
“When I came home, I found myself drinking in the simplest things -- the blessing of a refreshing breeze, the velvet texture of newly cut grass, a small child's lilting laughter.”
“Then we shift into the lilting melodies of two Russian lullabies, "Little Birch Tree" and "Good Night.”
The Huffington Post: Brenda Peterson: Sing, Make a Joyful Sound: How Singing Helps Us
“He enlists the young bassist phenom Esperanza Spalding to add her lilting voice to the Latin inspired composition " Salsa for Luisito" where he and percussionist Luisito Quintero parry and play together in joyous rhythmic synchronicity.”
“Tim Ries lilting tenor solo is perfectly complimented by Quintero's infectious congas.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘lilting’.
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Sounds
words that describe sound
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Words describing singing voices
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Descriptions of Sound
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