melodious

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UK/məˈləʊdi.əs/US/məˈloʊdi.əs/

adjective

Having a pleasant melody or sound; tuneful.

Opposite
UncommonScrabble 12

Meanings

adjectivemelodious (comparative more melodious, superlative most melodious)

comparative more melodious · superlative most melodious

  1. Having a pleasant melody or sound; tuneful.

    Patinkin’s melodious voice is a natural fit for animation, and he breathes just the right type of upper-crust life into Hugh in 22 short minutes.

    2013 October 13, Erik Adams, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Lisa’s Wedding” (season six, episode 19; originally aired 3/19/1995)”, in The Onion AV Club, archived from the original on 15 Oct 2013
    2 more examples

    Tremulous on the bladed graſs ſhone bright the pearly drops, like an aſſembly of ſparkling ſtars dancing on the plains of the zodiac; vocal was every bending ſpray, every reed was inſpired, each warbling throat ſeemed to emulate the melodious voice of the bird of a thouſand ſongs.

    1769, Firishta, translated by Alexander Dow, Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv

    A lovely crisp exhaust: a feeling of almost unlimited power combined with complete freedom of running: and, to crown it all, a most melodious and wholly American chime whistle—these were my immediate impressions as we stormed rapidly out of Göttingen, intent on winning back some of the lost time.

    1960 October, P. Ransome-Wallis, “Modern motive power of the German Federal Railway: Part Two”, in Trains Illustrated, page 611

    Synonyms: tuneful

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectiveHaving a pleasant melody or sound; tuneful.

Similar

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivehaving a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune

Similar

adjectivecontaining or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchmelodieus
  2. Middle Englishmelodious
  3. Englishmelodious

Inherited from Middle English melodious, from Middle French melodieus, melodieux. By surface analysis, melod(i) + -ous.

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Translations

Bulgarian мелодичен
  • мелодичен (melodičen)having a pleasant melody
Catalan melodiós
  • melodióshaving a pleasant melody
Chinese Mandarin 旋律優美的 /旋律优美的
  • 旋律優美的 /旋律优美的 (xúanlǜ yōuměi de)having a pleasant melody
Danish melodiøs
  • melodiøshaving a pleasant melody
Dutch melodieus
  • melodieushaving a pleasant melody
Esperanto melodia
  • melodiahaving a pleasant melody
Finnish melodinen, soinnukas
  • melodinenhaving a pleasant melody
  • soinnukashaving a pleasant melody
French mélodieux
  • mélodieuxhaving a pleasant melody
German melodiös, melodisch
  • melodiöshaving a pleasant melody
  • melodischhaving a pleasant melody
Greek μελωδικός
  • μελωδικός (melodikós)having a pleasant melody
Hungarian melodikus, dallamos
  • melodikushaving a pleasant melody
  • dallamoshaving a pleasant melody
Irish duanach
  • duanachhaving a pleasant melody
Japanese 旋律の美しい, 旋律的な
  • 旋律の美しい (senritsu no ttsukushii)having a pleasant melody
  • 旋律的な (senritsu-teki na)having a pleasant melody
Latin canōrus
  • canōrushaving a pleasant melody
Lithuanian dainingas
  • dainingashaving a pleasant melody
Māori rōreka, wainene
  • rōrekahaving a pleasant melody
  • wainenehaving a pleasant melody
  • waitīhaving a pleasant melody
Norwegian Bokmål melodiøs, melodisk
  • melodiøshaving a pleasant melody
  • melodiskhaving a pleasant melody
Polish melodyjny
  • melodyjnyhaving a pleasant melody
Portuguese melodioso, melódico
  • melodiosohaving a pleasant melody
  • melódicohaving a pleasant melody
Romanian melodios
  • melodioshaving a pleasant melody
Russian мелоди́чный
  • мелоди́чный (melodíčnyj)having a pleasant melody
Scottish Gaelic mànranach
  • mànranachhaving a pleasant melody
Spanish melodioso
  • melodiosohaving a pleasant melody
Swedish melodiös
  • melodiöshaving a pleasant melody
Turkish ahenkli
  • ahenklihaving a pleasant melody
Ukrainian мелоді́йний
  • мелоді́йний (melodíjnyj)having a pleasant melody

Rhymes & wordplay

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APA

melodious. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/melodious

MLA

“melodious.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/melodious. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “melodious,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/melodious.

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