Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Full of tune; melodious.
- adj. Producing musical sounds.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Full of melody or tune. Melodious; sweet of sound.
- Producing sweet sounds; musical.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Harmonious; melodious; musical.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune
Etymologies
- tune + -ful (Wiktionary)
Examples
“My book should smell of pines, and resound with the hum of insects," might have been its motto, so sweet and wholesome was it with a springlike sort of freshness which plainly betrayed that the author had learned some of Nature's deepest secrets and possessed the skill to tell them in tuneful words.”
“(Imagine some kind of tuneful, rhythmic structure here).”
“One old gentleman, something of a beau as well as a successful lawyer, congratulated Vickers on his "tuneful" music.”
“While on the train passing through Pennsylvania he wrote some verses in a letter to Sidney Colvin about the beautiful river with the "tuneful" name, of which one stanza runs thus:”
“Another characteristic of the same nature was their wonderful lack of musical ability, or of any kind of tuneful creativeness.”
“The chorale pieces, which are dark and serious, full of rough jagged edges; and the character songs, which are more popular and tuneful, but no less innovative.”
“In yet another grand Altman-esque gesture, the actors composed their own songs for "Nashville"--and a most tuneful soundtrack it is.”
“The "Let's put on a show!" blueprint -- a longtime staple of theater and film -- gets a gospel spin in the tuneful and amusing, if tortoise-paced, musical comedy "Sanctified.”
The Washington Post: Theater review of 'Sanctified' at the Lincoln Theatre
“Don't let that deter you from checking out their propulsive yet tuneful set at the Rock and Roll Hotel.”
The Washington Post: Getting Up Guide: Chinese road trips and Scottish rock stars
“In this respect, the Prof is well in tune with many British MCs of the moment – Example, Plan B, etc – who've largely abandoned documentary narratives about dealing crack on income support for rather less grim, and more tuneful destinations.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tuneful’.
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LIT - Ulysses - key words and phrases
money cowrie, bedraggle, omphalos, ineluctable, postprandial, bladderwrack, modality barnacle..., loofah, shipworm, cither, embattle, Malachi and 503 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Descriptions of Sound
jingling, gurgling, horrisonous, horrisonant, crepitant, screeching, ringing, sonorous, clamorous, rattling, roaring, breathy and 71 more...
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edes's Words
table talk, tuneful, bestrewn, determinate fashion, unpretending, personage, duly impressed, shirring, caw, hatchet job, gummy, comely and 225 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, T
torquate, thalassocracy, toothsome, travois, tempestuous, tone, tincture, tripwire, tether, trill, tenacious, travesty and 355 more...
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eye-ful(l)
eyeful, I-ful, i beamful, eifel
reckful, soulful, awful, aweful, presentful, nowful, mindful, zestful, apful, fruitful, tankful, thankful and 62 more...
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fibrous words
good strong words that create distinct images and feelings
tuneful, usher, fibrous, trinket, dollop, tinker, besmirch, simper, urge, scrawny, shrivel, slake and 69 more...
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lilydale's sound words
cacophonous, unmelodic, tuneful, meliphonic, cantation, polysymphonic, polyphony
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