Melodious \Me*lo"di*ous\, a. [Cf. F. m['e]lodieux. See
Melody.]
Containing, or producing, melody; musical; agreeable to the
ear by a sweet succession of sounds; as, a melodious voice.
"A melodious voice." "A melodious undertone." --Longfellow.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
melodious
adj 1: having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune [syn: tuneful]
[ant: tuneless]
2: containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing
melody; "the melodious song of a meadowlark" [syn: melodic,
musical] [ant: unmelodious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
47 Moby Thesaurus words for "melodious":
achingly sweet, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, appealing, ariose,
arioso, canorous, cantabile, catchy, dulcet, euphonic, euphonious,
euphonous, fine-toned, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced,
harmonious, honeyed, lyric, lyrical, melic, mellifluent,
mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, music-flowing,
music-like, musical, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, rich,
silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable,
songful, songlike, sonorous, sweet, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding,
tunable, tuned, tuneful
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
melodic, musical, tuneful
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