Mellifluous

Definition: Mellifluous

Mellifluous

Adjective

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

Date "mellifluous" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1600. (references)

Etymology: Mellifluous \Mel*lif"lu*ous\, adjective. [Latin expression mellifluus; mel, mellis, honey (akin to Greek, Gothic milip) fluere to flow. See Mildew, Fluent, and compare to Marmalade.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Mellifluous

Synonyms: dulcet (adj), honeyed (adj), mellisonant (adj), sweet (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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Mellifluous

English words defined with "mellifluous": Mellifluent. (references)

Specialty definitions using "mellifluous": Mellifluous Doctor. (references)

Etymologies containing "mellifluous": Mellifluent. (references)

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	Ashen; balmy; bland; caressing; comfortable; cool; cushy; delicate; diffuse; dim; dimmed; dulcet; dull; dusky; faint; gentle; gravy; hazy; lenient; light; low; low-key; mellifluous; mellow; melodious; mild; misty; murmured; muted; pale; pallid; pastel; pl.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Mellifluous" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Mellifluous" is used about 20 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%	20	78,262

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "mellifluous"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i rrjedhshëm (facile, flowing, fluent), i ëmbël (dreamy, dulcet, fresh, gentle, harmonious, kindly, luscious, mellifluent, melodic, melodious, soft, sugary, sweet, tender). (various references)

Arabic		‏مولد عسلا. (various references)

Bulgarian		сладкодумен (candied, eloquent, honey-mouthed, mellifluent, silver-tongued), красноречив (demosthenic, eloquent, fair-spoken, fine-spoken, oratorical, silver-tongued, speaking), мелодичен (canorous, dulcet, euphonious, harmonious, mellifluent, melodic, melodious, musical, orphean, songful, sonorous, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny), меден (brazen, copper, cupreous, honey, honeyed, honied, mellifluent). (various references)

Czech		sladký jako med (mellifluent). (various references)

Finnish		simasuinen (honey-tongued). (various references)

German		lieblich (charming, delightful, fair, lovely, mellow, sweet). (various references)

Greek		μελωδικόσ (cantabile, melodic, melodious, tuneful), μελίρρυτοσ (mellifluent). (various references)

Hebrew		מתוק כדבש. (various references)

Hungarian		mézédes (as sweet as honey, luscious, mellifluent), mézes (honeyed, honied). (various references)

Italian		mellifluo (honeyed, melliferous, mellifluent, nectariferous, sleek, smooth, suave, sugary). (various references)

Pig Latin		ellifluousmay

Portuguese		melífluo (mellifluent, silky, suave, unctuous), suave (bland, creamy, delicate, douceur, dowry, dulcify, easy, facile, genial, gentle, glib, lambkin, lamblike, lenient, meekness, mellow, mild, piano key, placard, pleasantly, silken, sleek, sleeky, smooth, soft, soft spoken, suave, sweet, tender), doce (bland, candy, comfit, confection, confectionery, dulcet, gentle, honeymoon, junket, kiss, mellifluent, mild, niddle-noddle, polite, soft, sugar, sugary, sweet, tender). (various references)

Russian		сладкозвучный (euphonious, Orphean), медоточивый (honey-mouthed, mellifluent). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		milozvučan (dulcet, euphonious, mellifluent, melodious, orotund, smooth, tuneful), sladak (cute, delectable, luscious, mellifluent, sleek, sweet). (various references)

Spanish		melifluo (honeyed, mealy, mellifluent). (various references)

Swedish		honungssöt. (various references)

Thai		ปากหวาน. (various references)

Turkish		tatlı (afters, agreeable, amiable, beautiful, blancmange, delightful, dessert, dulcet, fruity, honeyed, honied, luscious, mellifluent, mellow, pleasant, saccharine, sapid, silken, silky, smooth, soft, suave, subtile, subtle, sugary, sweet, sweetie, sweeties, sweetmeat, toothsome), bal gibi (as sweet as honey, jolly well, pure and simple), akıcı (diffluent, facile, fastmoving, flowing, fluent, fluid, liquid, runny, smooth, speaking, torrential, voluble). (various references)

Ukranian		медоточивий (candied, mellifluent), медоносний (honeyed, melliferous, mellifluent, nectareous, nectariferous). (various references)

Vietnamese		ngọt như mật (mellifluent), ngọt ngào (mellifluent). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "mellifluous": mellifluously, mellifluousness, mellifluousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Mellifluous" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: malifluous, melifluous, melifulous, melliflous, mellifluos, melliflvous, mellifulous, mellifuous, mellitluous. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "mellifluous" (pronounced 'Mel*lif"lu*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-f-i-l-l-l-m-o-s-u-u"
	-4 letters: emulous, foliums, follies, fulsome, illumes, limulus, lollies, mollies, mouille, museful, soulful.
	-5 letters: filles, fillos, filose, flumes, folium, folles, follis, fumuli, fusile, illume, louies, milles, molies, mollie, muesli, oleums, useful.
	Words containing the letters "e-f-i-l-l-l-m-o-s-u-u"
	+2 letters: mellifluously.
	+4 letters: mellifluousness.
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