Melodious

Definitions: Melodious

Melodious

Adjective

1. Having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune.

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

Date "melodious" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Synonyms: Melodious

Synonyms: melodic (adj), musical (adj), tuneful (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: tuneless (adj), unmelodious (adj). (additional references)

Crosswords: Melodious

English words defined with "melodious": canorous, Chantant ♦ Hylocichla mustelina ♦ Immelodious, Insonorous ♦ Luscinia megarhynchos ♦ melodic, melodiously, musical ♦ nightingale ♦ sing, songful ♦ thickhead, tunefully ♦ Whistler, wood thrush. (references)

Specialty definitions using "melodious": Amphion ♦ Comparisons are Odorous ♦ Editor ♦ Israfil'. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	25 Melodious and Progressive Studies: Op. 60, for Guitar (reference) Heller 25 Melodious Studies (Op.45) (reference) Loeschorn 20 Melodious Studies (Op.65) (reference) Making Simple Musical Instruments: A Melodious Collection of Strings, Winds, Drums & More (reference) Mallet Studies and Melodious Etudes: Level 1 (reference) (more book examples)
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Play	Caption
	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.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos. O, the Lord of Law on the Throne of Thought, A gilded impostor is he. Of shreds and patches his robes are wrought, His crown is brass, Himself an ass, And his power is fiddle-dee-dee. Prankily, crankily prating of naught, Silly old quilly old Monarch of Thought. Public opinion's camp-follower he, Thundering, blundering, plundering free. Affected, Ungracious, Suspected, Mendacious, Respected contemporaree! J.H. Bumbleshook
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"Melodious" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 98.00% of the time. "Melodious" is used about 50 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)	98%	49	48,677
Noun (proper)	2%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	50	N/A

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

Arabic		‏لحني (melodic), ‏رخيم (euphonic, liquid, mellow, singsong, soft, tuneful), ‏شجي (mellow, pathetic). (various references)

Bulgarian		нежен (affectionate, dainty, delicate, dovelike, downy, fatherly, fond, fragile, frail, loving, maidenly, melting, slender, soft, sweet, tender, womanly), напевен (singsong), мек (balmy, benign, benignant, bland, creamy, cushiony, doughy, ductile, euphemistic, flabby, flaccid, floppy, genial, green, kindly, lambent, limp, medium, meek, mellow, melting, mild, pillowy, rich, round, silken, silver, soft, supple, tender, weak, well-padded, yielding), мелодичен (canorous, dulcet, euphonious, harmonious, mellifluent, mellifluous, melodic, musical, orphean, songful, sonorous, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny), звучен (deep-mouthed, full, liquid, orotund, resounding, ringing, rotund, round, smacking, soft, sonant, soniferous, sonorous, sounding, sweet, tuneful, vibrant, vocal, voiced, voiceful). (various references)

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

Danish		spottesanger (melodious warbler). (various references)

Dutch		orpheusspotvogel (melodious warbler), kortvleugelspotvogel (melodious warbler). (various references)

Farsi		ملیح (Sugary), دلپذیر (Amiable, Graceful, Gracious, Handsome, Kindly, Lief, Lovely, Luscious, Mellow, Nice, Palatable, Scrumptious), دارای ملودی . (various references)

Finnish		melodinen, sointuva (sonorous), soinnukas (sonorous). (various references)

French		mélodieux (mellow), harmonieux (mellow). (various references)

German		melodisch (lyrically, melodic, musical, musically, tuneful, tunefully, tuny), klangvoll (euphonic, fine-sounding, fruity, mellifluously, melodiously, sonorous, tuneful). (various references)

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

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

Indonesian		merdu (dulcet, tunable, tuneful). (various references)

Italian		melodioso (dulcet, harmonious, tuneful). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		メル友 (a friend with whom one corresponds by e-mail, a motion, being falling down drunk, maintenance, Mauser, melodrama, melody, melon, member, member name, members, member's card, membership, Memphis, Mendel, mendelevium, menses, mensheviki, menswear, mental, mental health, mental test, mentalistic, mentality, menthol, meringue, mince, mince cutlet, mortgage, soap opera), 朗らか (brightness, cheerfulness). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		メロディアス , ほがらか (brightness, cheerfulness). (various references)

Pig Latin		elodiousmay

Portuguese		melodioso (arioso, canorous, harmonious, music, musical, songful, sonorous, sweet, tunable, tuneful, tuny), melódico (tuneful). (various references)

Romanian		muzical (musical, musically), melodios (canorous, harmonious, melodiously, musical, soft, sweet, tuneful, tunefully), suav (mellow, suave, sweet), dulce (amorously, benign, bland, candied, charming, dear, dessert, dulcet, flattering, fresh, genial, gentle, gently, honeyed, lovable, luscious, melliferous, mellow, slack, smooth, soft, suave, sugared, sweet, sweetly, sweets, tender, winning). (various references)

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

Scottish		buchainn, biolagach, binn (musically sweet, sentence, sentence of condemnation, verdict), basganta. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		milozvučan (dulcet, euphonious, mellifluent, mellifluous, orotund, smooth, tuneful), melodičan (melodic, tunable, tuneful). (various references)

Spanish		melodioso (dulcet, mellow, tuneful). (various references)

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

Turkish		melodiye ait, uyumlu (accommodating, canorous, coherent, compatible, concordant, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentient, consequent, consonant, deferent, deferential, elastic, eurhythmic, harmonic, harmonious, responsive, rhythmic, supple, symphonious, tuneful, unisonous, well-matched), ahenkli (cadenced, canorous, coherent, concordant, congruent, congruous, consonant, euphonic, euphonious, harmonic, harmonious, homophonic, in accord, in order, melodic, symphonious, tuneful). (various references)

Ukranian		м'який (cat-like, cottony, creamy, delicate, downy, genial, gentle, kindly, limp, mild, mushy, non-rigid, pulpy, soft, yielding), мелодійний (ariose, fluted, fluty, harmonic, harmonious, melodic, musical, orphean, sweet). (various references)

Vietnamese		du dương (canorous, melody, tuneful). (various references)

Welsh		melodaidd, soniarus (loud, tuneful), perseiniol, persain (euphonious, euphony). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	Hippolais polyglotta, RM:beffarel poliglot. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "melodious": melodiously, melodiousness, melodiousnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "melodious": unmelodious. (additional references)
	Words containing "melodious": unmelodiousness, unmelodiousnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Melodious" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: emollience, malodoious, meledious, melodions, melodius, melodous, Menodotus, Muellerious. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "melodious" (pronounced mulō"dēus)
5	-ō" d ē u s	commodious, odious.
4	-d ē u s	fastidious, hideous, insidious, invidious, radius, studious, tedious.
3	-ē u s	acrimonious, alias, amphibious, aqueous, bilious, coleus, contemporaneous, copious, courteous, curious, deleterious, delirious, denarius, devious, dubious, envious, erroneous, extraneous, felonious, furious, gaseous, glorious, gregarious, harmonious, hilarious, homogeneous, igneous, ignominious, illustrious, imperious, impervious, industrious, inglorious, injurious, instantaneous, laborious, lascivious, lugubrious, luxurious, meritorious, miscellaneous, mysterious, nefarious, notorious, nucleus, oblivious, obsequious, obvious, pancreas, penurious, percutaneous, precarious, previous, punctilious, sanctimonious, Sartorius, serious, simultaneous, spontaneous, spurious, supercilious, unceremonious, various, vicarious, victorious, vitreous.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-i-l-m-o-o-s-u"
	-1 letter: emulsoid, modiolus.
	-2 letters: doolies, meloids, midsole, modules.
	-3 letters: doolie, duomos, iodous, looies, loomed, loosed, louies, loused, medius, meloid, misled, models, module, moduli, modulo, moiled, molies, moulds, moused, muesli, odeums, odious, odiums, oldies, oleums, oodles, osmole, seldom, siloed, slimed, smiled, sodium, soiled, soloed, souled.
	-4 letters: deils, deism, delis, demos, dimes, diols, disme, doles, domes, dooms.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-i-l-m-o-o-s-u"
	+2 letters: melodiously, unmelodious.
	+4 letters: compendiously, demodulations, hemodilutions, melodiousness.
	+5 letters: discombobulate.
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