concinnousadj.
/kənˈsɪnəs/, U.S. /kənˈsɪnəs/ 1. Fitly put together or arranged, harmonious; agreeable, elegant, graceful. rare.
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the world > relative properties > order > [adjective] > ordered or systematically arranged > in orderly combination
concinnous1662
chorded1850
co-ordinated1859
orchestrated1883
well-co-ordinated1983
the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > aesthetic quality or good taste > [adjective] > pleasing to the aesthetic sense
gentc1300
sweet?a1366
comelyc1400
pretty1442
poetical1447
beautifula1586
concinnous1662
poetic1731
1662 J. Glanvill Lux Orientalis i. 3 Till something else appear more concinnous and rational.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > melodious or harmonious
sweetc900
merryOE
softc1230
accordanta1325
well-soundingc1350
cordant1382
sootc1385
songfula1400
melodiousa1425
sugaredc1430
well-toneda1500
tunable1504
dulcea1513
equivalenta1513
consonant?1521
harmonicala1527
harmoniousc1550
consorteda1586
Orphean1593
concentful1595
melodical1596
sweet-recording1598
tuneful1598
sirenical1599
high-tuned1603
nightingale-like1611
soundful?1615
according1626
modulaminous1637
undiscording1645
canorous1646
symphonious1652
concinnous1654
consonous1654
harmonic1667
sirenica1704
symphonial1773
concentual1782
chantant1785
Memnonian1800
melodized1807
Orphic1817
undiscordant1819
concentuous1850
fluting1852
melodic1871
well-orchestrated1872
jarless1876
tuny1885
tunesome1890
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > harmony or sounds in combination > chord > [noun] > imperfect concord
emmele1609
imperfect concord1609
concinnous discord (or interval)1654
imperfect1659
concinnity1761
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > interval > [noun] > permitted dissonant interval
concinnous discord (or interval)1728
1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana 227 The Concinnous, or Harmonical Sound..called..in our language the Twang.
1694 W. Holder Treat. Harmony iv. 194 Those [discords] only here considered, which are (as the Greeks termed them) ἐμμελῆ, Concinnous, apt and usefull in Harmony.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Discords are distinguish'd into Concinnous and Inconcinnous Intervals.
1747 Philos. Trans. 1746 (Royal Soc.) 44 269 A Scale adapted only to the concinnous Constitution of one Key.
1761 F. H. E. Stiles in Philos. Trans. 1760 (Royal Soc.) 51 721 The mutations by concinnous intervals.
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 434/1 Concinnous intervals, in Music, are the various concords.
3. Characterized by concinnity or studied elegance of style.
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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > refinement > elegance > [adjective]
featousc1400
elegantc1475
neat1546
genteel1688
iligant1819
elegantish1830
concinnous1831
1831 T. De Quincey Dr. Parr in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 768/1 That most concinnous and most rotund of professors—Mr. Heyne.
Derivatives
conˈcinnously adv.
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1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A System is said to be concinnous, or concinnously divided, when the Parts thereof, consider'd as simple Intervals, are concinnous.
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