Melodic

Definitions: Melodic

Melodic

Adjective

1. Containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody; "the melodious song of a meadowlark".

2. Of or relating to melody; "melodic harmony".

Synonyms: Melodic

Synonyms: melodious (adj), musical (adj). (additional references)

Antonym: unmelodious (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Melodic

English words defined with "melodic": African-American music, arioso ♦ black music ♦ contrapuntal ♦ Figurate, four-part harmony ♦ homophonic ♦ idea ♦ Leading motive, leitmotif, leitmotiv ♦ melodic line, melodic phrase, melodic theme, Melop/ia, minor scale, monophonic, musical theme ♦ phrasing, polyphonic ♦ Rosalia ♦ sequence, strand ♦ texture, thematic, theme ♦ unthematic. (references)

Specialty definitions using "melodic": atonal music ♦ choir leader, CHORAL DIRECTOR. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Melodic" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Romanian (melodically).

Domain	Title
Books	A New Approach to Ear Training : A Programmed Course in Melodic and Harmonic Dictation (Norton Programed Texts in Music Theory) - Workbook only (reference) Bebop Licks for Guitar: A Dictionary of Melodic Ideas for Improvisation (reference) Melodic and Progressive Etudes, Op. 60" (reference) Melodic Banjo (reference) Melodic Junction Book/CD Set (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Marty Freidman: Melodic Control (reference) Melodic Percussion (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Best of Melodic & New Age Fant (reference) MELODIC MIND WANDER (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Quick shuffle rhythm with very stiff melodic material.		West African percussion style with South American melodic material played on a synthesizer.
	Staccato bass with melodic flute and quena creating a safari ambient texture.		Reggae-influenced synthesized melodic tune very typical of a television show theme of the 1980's.
	Piano and guitar duet with the piano accompanying the melodic guitar.		A melodic and syncopated rhythmic feel quite typical of a Jamaican style.
	Gamelan orchestra playing a repetitive melodic pattern.		A Kansas City swing style piece using the blues as a harmonic and melodic base.
	A major etude using arpeggiated chords and melodic material contrapuntally.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky	Brahms has very little melodic invention . . . he excites and irritates our musical senses without wishing to satisfy them.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Melodic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.23% of the time. "Melodic" is used about 261 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)	99.23%	259	18,370
Noun (proper)	0.77%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	261	N/A

Expressions using "melodic": melodic line ♦ melodic phrase ♦ melodic theme. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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 "melodic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		melodioz (melodious, tuneful), i ëmbël (dreamy, dulcet, fresh, gentle, harmonious, kindly, luscious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodious, soft, sugary, sweet, tender). (various references)

Arabic		‏لحني (melodious), ‏ذو علاقة باللحن. (various references)

Bulgarian		мелодичен (canorous, dulcet, euphonious, harmonious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodious, musical, orphean, songful, sonorous, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny). (various references)

Chinese		旋律 (melodically). (various references)

Czech		melodický (canorous, cantabile, harmonious, melodious, tuneful). (various references)

French		mélodique. (various references)

German		melodisch (lyrically, melodious, musical, musically, tuneful, tunefully, tuny). (various references)

Greek		μελωδικόσ (cantabile, mellifluous, melodious, tuneful). (various references)

Hebrew		מלודי (tuneful). (various references)

Hungarian		melodikus (melodious, tuneful), dallamos (canorous, euphonious, melodious, musical, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny). (various references)

Italian		melodico, di melodia. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		着メロ (melodic incoming call tones), 楽想 (melodic subject, theme). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		がくそう (learned priest pursuing his studies, melodic subject, school, theme), ちゃくメロ (melodic incoming call tones). (various references)

Pig Latin		elodicmay

Portuguese		tenro (mild, Pappy, tender). (various references)

Russian		мелодичный (canorous, fluted, harmonious, melodious, musical, songful, tunable, tuneful), мелодический. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		melodičan (melodious, tunable, tuneful). (various references)

Spanish		melódico (songful). (various references)

Swedish		melodisk (canorous, melodious, tuneful). (various references)

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

Ukranian		мелодійний (ariose, fluted, fluty, harmonic, harmonious, melodious, musical, orphean, sweet). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "melodic": melodica, melodically, melodicas. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Melodic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Maeldoid, Mahloji, Malcovich, maleldil, Malkowich, Meldrick, Mellerick, mellifica, mellitic, Mellotlie, Mellottie, Melluci, melluish, Melodia, melodie, Melottie, miluji, Mlodych, moldic, nilotica, omerovic. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "melodic" (pronounced mulÄ"dik)
4	-Ä" d i k	episodic, periodic, rhapsodic.
3	-d i k	acidic, Benedick, comedic, encyclopedic, heraldic, medic, nomadic, nordic, orthopedic, paramedic, sporadic, tornadic.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-e-i-l-m-o"
	-1 letter: coiled, docile, medico, meloid, moiled.
	-2 letters: celom, clime, coled, dolce, dolci, domic, limed, medic, melic, model, oiled, oldie, oleic.
	-3 letters: cedi, ceil, clod, code, coed, coil, cold, cole, come, deco, deil, deli, demo, dice, diel, dime, diol, dole, dome, emic, iced, idem, idle, idol, lice, lido, lied, lime, limo, loci, lode, meld, mice.
	Words containing the letters "c-d-e-i-l-m-o"
	+1 letter: compiled, complied, domicile, melodica, myceloid.
	+2 letters: comingled, demonical, domiciled, domiciles, dulcimore, melodicas.
	+3 letters: biomedical, collimated, commingled, complained, demoniacal, dulcimores, duodecimal, methodical, miscolored, mislocated, nonmedical, outclimbed, proclaimed, recompiled.
	+4 letters: aeromedical, chrysomelid, comedically, complicated, condimental, confirmedly, declamation, demonically, dimercaprol, diplomacies, domiciliate, duodecimals, endoplasmic, malediction, maledictory, medicolegal, melodically, microfilmed, millisecond, multicoated, nematocidal, overclaimed, polemicized.
	+5 letters: accomplished, anecdotalism, chrysomelids, communalized, complexified, complexioned, complimented, decalcomania, declamations, demoniacally, dermatologic, dilatometric, dimercaprols, domestically, domiciliated, domiciliates, immethodical, machicolated, maledictions, melodramatic, mendaciously, methodically, milliseconds, misallocated, miscataloged, molluscicide, multicolored, oleandomycin.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 65 6C 6F 64 69 63

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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Melodic

Definitions: Melodic

Melodic

Adjective

Synonyms: Melodic

Crosswords: Melodic

Commercial Usage: Melodic

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Sounds Captioned with "Melodic".

Familiar Quotations: Melodic

Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky

Usage Frequency: Melodic

Expressions: Melodic

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Melodic

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Modern Translations: Melodic

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Derivations & Misspellings: Melodic

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Rhyming with "Melodic"

Anagrams: Melodic

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Alternative Orthography: Melodic

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