souly

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US/ˈsoʊl.i/

adjective

Soulful; characteristic of soul music.

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Meanings

adjectivesouly (not comparable)
  1. not comparableuncommonSoulful; characteristic of soul music.

    He's bending over givin' it hell, singing souly music, dig, but he can't break that thing, man, because he ain't equipped.

    1997, Robert Stone, A Hall of Mirrors, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 190
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    To my liking however, the souly parts seemed artificial, the citation of the African-American musical style sounded rather forced and arty, because it diverted from the main message of […]

    1999, E. Breitinger, “Heroes of South African History as Operatic Heroes”, in South African Theatre Journal, Taylor & Francis

    Larkin continued: “The band is sparked off by a Fender bass and plenty of souly Lat-Am percussion, and has jetting spirited trumpet and matching saxes. 'I Remember Clifford', 'Pas-Se-O-Ne Blues' and 'Sidewinder' are the most satisfying[…]

    2009 November 11, Mike Evans, Ray Charles: Birth of Soul, Omnibus Press, →ISBN

    We had a kind of music going on that no-one else was doing, … and put together a few sort of souly riffs and this, that and the […]

    2013, A Jones, G Martin, “A psychedelic band who could" create fucking havoc", fronted by a bovver boy in a kaftan...”, in Uncut

    […] in Greenwich Connecticut, to present to us an afternoon of "souly" spiritual music! Black and white together, we all sang to the glory of one God.

    1976, Harīśa Trivedī, Uttarākhaṇḍa prakr̥ti thī prabhu --

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with souly

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Anagrams

lousy
Cite this entry
APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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