Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of, relating to, or containing a pleasing succession of sounds; tuneful.
- adj. Agreeable to hear: a melodious voice; the melodious song of a bird.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Containing, or producing, melody; musical; agreeable to the ear by a sweet succession of sounds.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune
- adj. containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody
Examples
“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 ...”
“Manuel bent down and knocked at the entrance, calling softly in melodious Spanish.”
“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 air is crisp and keen; gay cries and clinking pattens tinkle in melodious confusion from the street below.”
“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.”
“He added that I vividly recall the melodious voice of Raja Begum and histrionics of Fida Mohammad Hussnain.”
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“Lucho, baby, Luis said, as if the name were melodious, Lucho Libre, and he affectionately slapped the big man.”
“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”
“Birds were calling their melodious complaint on the passing of another day and the shadows were lengthening when I came to a cross-roads where stood a timeworn finger-post beneath which sat a solitary figure in weather-beaten hat and coat, head bowed over the book opened upon his knees.”
“Angela!" called a melodious voice, which she recognised at once as the dearest to her in the world.”
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