Dulcet

Definition: Dulcet

Dulcet

Adjective

1. Extremely pleasant in a gentle way; "the most dulcet swimming on the most beautiful and remote beaches".

2. Pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dulcet" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Etymology: Dulcet \Dul"cet\, adjective. [Old French expression doucet, diminutive of dous sweet, French doux, from Latin expression dulcis; akin to Greek Compare to Doucet.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Dulcet

Pain

Refreshing; comfortable; cordial; genial; glad, gladsome; sweet, delectable, nice, dainty; delicate, delicious; dulcet; luscious; palatable; luxurious, voluptuous; sensual.

Crosswords: Dulcet

Bells ringing, fireworks, a dulcet choir of pretty little birdies? (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

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Music

• Dulcet Tones (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Albanian

i këndshëm (agreeable, beauteous, beautiful, delectable, delicious, dreamy, entertaining, funny, good, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, goodly, graceful, gracious, grateful, handsome, jocose, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, lovely, nice, palatable, piquant, pleasant, pretty, Savory, savoury, smooth, soft, sweet, sympathetic), i ëmbël (dreamy, fresh, gentle, harmonious, kindly, luscious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodic, melodious, soft, sugary, sweet, tender). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مطرب (chanter, melodist, songster, warbler), ‏سائغ (agreeable, palatable, pleasant, savory, savoury), ‏عذب (agonize, agreeable, bedevil, benign, charming, chasten, crucify, devil, freshen, grilled, harrow, harry, hearty, leisurely, liquid, murder, palmy, persecute, pillory, plague, quiet, rack, rack one's brains, scourge, silken, silky, sleek, smite, smooth, smooth spoken, soft, suave, sweet, sympathetic, tantalize, tease, tender, torment, torture, wrench, wring). (various references)

Bulgarian 

сладък (cute, euphonious, fresh, honey, mellow, sweet, yummy), мелодичен (canorous, euphonious, harmonious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodic, melodious, musical, orphean, songful, sonorous, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny). (various references)

Czech

příjemný (agreeable, congenial, engaging, enjoyable, good, jolly, neighborly, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, Savory, smooth, snug, suave, sweet, winning, winsome). (various references)

French

mélodieux, chanteur. (various references)

German

wohlklingend (euphonious, mellifluous, melodious, pleasant-sounding). (various references)

Greek 

γλυκύφωνοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ערב לאוזן (tuneful). (various references)

Hungarian

kellemes (affable, agreeable, benign, bland, comfortable, comfy, congenial, cushy, dainty, debonair, delectable, delicate, engaging, enjoyable, fine, genial, glad, grateful, harmonious, likable, lovely, nice, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, refined, soft, suave, sweet, to elate, welcome), édes (ducky, gentle, luscious, soft, suave, sweet, tender, to taste sweet). (various references)

Indonesian

merdu (melodious, tunable, tuneful), manis (adorable, cute, engageing, kind, sweet). (various references)

Italian

melodioso (harmonious, melodious, tuneful). (various references)

Manx

millish (balmy, darling, fruity, honeyed, luscious, sugary, sweet). (various references)

Pig Latin

ulcetday

Portuguese

doce (bland, candy, comfit, confection, confectionery, gentle, honeyed, junket, kiss, mellifluent, mellifluous, mild, nicy, polite, soft, sugar, sugary, tender), suave (bland, creamy, delicate, douce, downy, easy, facile, genial, gentle, glib, lambent, lamblike, lenient, meek, mellifluent, mellifluous, mild, piano, placable, pleasant, silken, sleek, sleeky, smooth, soft, soft-spoken, suave, sweet, tender). (various references)

Romanian

dulce (amorously, benign, bland, candied, charming, dear, dessert, flattering, fresh, genial, gentle, gently, honeyed, lovable, luscious, melliferous, mellow, melodious, slack, smooth, soft, suave, sugared, sweet, sweetly, sweets, tender, winning), plãcut (agreeable, cheerful, comely, fine, genial, genially, gladsome, good, goodly, grateful, gratefully, gratifying, handsome, homey, kindly, likable, listenable, merry, neat, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, smooth, snug, sweet). (various references)

Russian 

сладкий (honeyed, luscious, sugary, sweet, syrupy), приятный (agreeable, cuddly, cushy, enjoyable, graceful, grateful, jolly, likable, nice, palatable, peachy, pleasant, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, satisfactory, simpatico, soft, sweet-tempered). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

milozvučan (euphonious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodious, orotund, smooth, tuneful). (various references)

Spanish

dulce (candy, delicacy, dove-like, fresh, gentle, melting, mild, soft, soothing, sweet, sweetmeat, tender, tidbit, trifle), suave (balmy, genial, gentle, mild, silken, silky, smooth, soft, suave, subdued, supple, sweet), melodioso (mellow, melodious, tuneful). (various references)

Swedish

smekande (caressing, gentle), ljuvlig (cheery, delectable, delightful, exquisite, heavenly, lovely, luscious). (various references)

Turkish

tatlı (afters, agreeable, amiable, beautiful, blancmange, delightful, dessert, fruity, honeyed, honied, luscious, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellow, pleasant, saccharine, sapid, silken, silky, smooth, soft, suave, subtile, subtle, sugary, sweet, sweetie, sweeties, sweetmeat, toothsome), kulağa hoş gelen (euphonic), hafif (airy, blancmange, cushy, digestible, distant, easy of digestion, feeble, feint, frail, frivolous, lenient, light, lightly, lightweight, loose, mild, piano, slight, small, soft, subdued, tenuous, unsound, unsubstantial, weak, wishy washy). (various references)

Ukrainian

солодкий (balmy, nectareous, sweet), при�"мний (acceptable, agreeable, amiable, balmy, beautiful, boon, canny, clean-cut, complimentary, couth, cozy, cushy, delectable, easy, enjoyable, glad, good, goodly, graceful, grateful, jocund, kindly, lepid, nice, nutty, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, prepossessing, pretty, redolent, satisfactory, tasty, welcome, yummy). (various references)

Vietnamese 

dịu d� ng (gentle, light, smoothspoken, velvet), êm ái (consonant, cushy, gently, sweet, tender, tunable, tuneful). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "dulcet": dulcetly, dulcets. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Dulcet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dalgetty, delce, Delcev, Delchev, delect, Deltec, dilect, docet, dolcei, dolceo, dolcet, dolcett, Doulce, Dowcett, duccet, ducet, duclet, ducte, dulcedo, dulcent, Dulces, Dulci, dulcia, dulcis, dulcit, dulcote, Dulcy, Duleek, dulse, dulsit, duoce. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: clued, culet, educt, luted.

-2 letters: celt, clue, cued, cult, cute, delt, duce, duct, duel, duet, leud, luce, lude, lute, tule.

-3 letters: cel, cud, cue, cut, del, due, ecu, eld, led, let, leu, ted, tel.

-4 letters: de, ed, el, et, ut.

+1 letter: clouted, cuttled, ductile, ductule, dulcets, mulcted.

+2 letters: clotured, cloudlet, clutched, couldest, cuittled, cultured, ductless, ductules, dulcetly, lectured, occulted, octupled, relucted, sculpted, scuttled, sulcated, truckled.

+3 letters: acidulate, acidulent, candlenut, canulated, centupled, claughted, cloudiest, cloudlets, clustered, cluttered, consulted, copulated, credulity, cuddliest, cumulated, curtailed, deceitful, demulcent, duplicate, elucidate, jaculated, maculated, nucleated, osculated, peculated, poulticed, trauchled, ulcerated, unclothed, unelected, unlatched, victualed.