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Melodic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of, relating to, or containing melody.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. of, relating to, or having melody

adj. melodious, tuneful

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of the nature of melody; relating to, containing, or made up of, melody; melodious.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

In music: Melodious; pertaining to a pleasing succession of sounds.

Pertaining to melody as distinguished from harmony and rhythm.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody

adj. of or relating to melody

Word Usage

"One tone, one chord, a single movement, three, four notes in melodic succession, are in their musical apperception the substratum of such unutterable and intense musical emotion that it becomes practically impossible in these sound-areas to make music freely and completely in the manner of Bach, Beethoven, Debussy, or Palestrina."

Equivalent

mellisonant ariose songful singing lyrical honeyed canorous sweet cantabile mellifluous

Cross Reference

melodic interval

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

melodious

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

episodic periodic rhapsodic

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

melodious lilting harmonic rhythmic resonant plaintive harmonious high-pitched tonal musical