Mellifluous \Mel*lif"lu*ous\, a. [L. mellifluus; mel, mellis,
honey (akin to Gr. ?, Goth. milip) + fluere to flow. See
Mildew, Fluent, and cf. Marmalade.]
Flowing as with honey; smooth; flowing sweetly or smoothly;
as, a mellifluous voice. --
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mellifluous
adj : pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello" [syn: dulcet,
honeyed, mellisonant, sweet]
WordNet (r) 2.0
98 Moby Thesaurus words for "mellifluous":
accordant, achingly sweet, affable, agreeable, agreeable-sounding,
ambrosial, amiable, amicable, appealing, ariose, arioso,
bittersweet, blissful, candied, canorous, cantabile, catchy,
cheerful, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, desirable,
dulcet, en rapport, enjoyable, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous,
fair, fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, fine-toned,
genial, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, good, goodly,
gracious, grateful, gratifying, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed,
honeysweet, likable, liquid, melic, melliferous, mellifluent,
mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, music-flowing, music-like,
musical, nectareous, nectarous, nice, pleasant, pleasant-sounding,
pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, rewarding,
rich, sacchariferous, satisfying, silver-toned, silver-tongued,
silver-voiced, silvery, singable, songful, songlike, sonorous,
sour-sweet, sugarcoated, sugared, sugarsweet, sugary, sweet,
sweet and pungent, sweet and sour, sweet as sugar, sweet-flowing,
sweet-sounding, sweetened, sweetish, syrupy, tunable, tuneful,
welcome
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
dulcet, honeyed, mellisonant, sweet
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