Euphonious

Definitions: Euphonious

Euphonious

Adjective

1. Having a pleasant sound; "a euphonious trill of silver laughter".

2. (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident; "her euphonious Southern speech".

Date "euphonious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1832. (references)

Synonym: Euphonious

Synonym: euphonous (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: cacophonous (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Elegance	Graceful, easy, readable, fluent, flowing, tripping; unaffected, natural, unlabored; mellifluous; euphonious, euphemism, euphemistic; numerose, rhythmical.
Voice	Adjective: vocal, phonetic, oral; ejaculatory, articulate, distinct, stertorous; euphonious; (melodious).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Euphonious

English words defined with "euphonious": euphonous. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	The hills are made with the euphonious symphonies of descant (Moulin Rouge!; writing credit: Baz Luhrmann; Craig Pearce)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Euphonious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Euphonious" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	6	143,867

Language		Translations for "euphonious"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		që tingëllon bukur (euphonic). (various references)

Arabic		‏حسن الوقع فى الأذن. (various references)

Bulgarian		сладък (cute, dulcet, fresh, honey, mellow, sweet, yummy), мелодичен (canorous, dulcet, harmonious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodic, melodious, musical, orphean, songful, sonorous, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny), евфонически (euphonic, euphonical), благозвучен (euphonic, euphonical). (various references)

Czech		eufonický (euphonic). (various references)

Dutch		welluidend, schoonklinkend. (various references)

Esperanto		belsona. (various references)

French		euphonique (euphonic). (various references)

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

Greek		εύφωνοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		ערב (bailor, bondman, guarantor, harmonious, pleasant, succulent, surety, tasteful, tasty, toothsome). (various references)

Hungarian		jól hangzó (euphonic, melodious, musical), szépen hangzó (euphonic), szép hangzású (euphonic), dallamos (canorous, melodic, melodious, musical, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny). (various references)

Italian		armonioso (clean, concordant, consonant, harmonic, harmonious, neat, shapely, tuneful). (various references)

Pig Latin		euphoniousay

Portuguese		eufónico, eufônico (euphony), sonoro (harmonist, loudly, mouthful, orphan, phonal, plangent, reverberant, reverberating, ringing, rotund, sonant, soniferous, sonorous, sounding, vibrant, vocal, voiced), harmonioso (accordant, canorous, concordant, conformable, consonant, flowing, harmonic, harmonious, melodist, numerous, orpin, regular, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny, United). (various references)

Russian		благозвучный (dulcet, euphonic). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		milozvučan (dulcet, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodious, orotund, smooth, tuneful). (various references)

Spanish		eufónico (euphonic). (various references)

Swedish		välljuds- (euphonic), välljudande (euphonic). (various references)

Thai		ซึ่งมีเสียงเพราะ. (various references)

Turkish		hoş sesli, ahenkli (cadenced, canorous, coherent, concordant, congruent, congruous, consonant, euphonic, harmonic, harmonious, homophonic, in accord, in order, melodic, melodious, symphonious, tuneful). (various references)

Ukranian		солодкозвучний (orphean, sirenic, sirenical), милозвучний (euphonic, euphonical). (various references)

Vietnamese		êm tai (canorous, euphonic, euphonical, musical). (various references)

Welsh		persain (euphony, melodious), hysain (sonorous). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "euphonious": euphoniously, euphoniousness, euphoniousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Euphonious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bufonius, ephonious, euphonius, euphorious, euponious. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "euphonious" (pronounced 'Eu*pho"ni*ous'): Abdominous, Abiogenous, Ablatitious, Abnormous, Absentaneous, Absonous, Abstemious, Abstentious, Abstractitious, Acanthaceous, Acanthocarpous, Acanthocephalous, Acanthophorous, Acanthopodious, Acanthopterous, Acanthopterygious, Acarpellous, Acarpous, Acclivitous, Acclivous, Acephalous, Acetabuliferous, Acetarious, Acetous, Achilous, Achlamydeous, Acholous, Achromatous, Achroous, Achylous, Achymous, Acidiferous, Acidulous, Acinaceous, Acotyledonous, Acrimonious, Acrocarpous, Acrogenous, Acronyctous, Acrosporous, Acrotomous, Actinophorous, Aculeous, Acuminous, Addititious, Adelphous, Adenophorous, Adenophyllous, Adenous, Adiaphorous. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-h-i-n-o-o-p-s-u-u"
	-3 letters: heinous, phonies, unhouse.
	-4 letters: opines, ouphes, phones, phonos, poison, ponies, puisne, punish, siphon, supine, unship.
	-5 letters: eosin, hoise, hones, hoops, hopes, hosen, house, noise, noose, opens, opine, opsin, ouphe, ouphs, peins, penis, peons, phone, phono, phons, pines, pions, pious, poise, pones, poohs, poons, shine, shone, shoon, snipe, snoop, spine, spoon, sunup, unhip.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-i-n-o-o-p-s-u-u"
	+2 letters: euphoniously.
	+4 letters: euphoniousness.
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