melodiousadj.

Brit.

/mᵻˈləʊdɪəs/, U.S.

/məˈloʊdiəs/

Forms: late Middle English meledious, late Middle English mellodyus, late Middle English melodiose, late Middle English melodius, late Middle English melodyouws, late Middle English melodyows, late Middle English melydiows, late Middle English melydyus, late Middle English–1500s mellodyous, late Middle English–1500s melodyous, late Middle English–1500s melodyouse, late Middle English–1600s mellodious, late Middle English– melodious, 1500s melodyus, 1600s mellodius; Scottish pre-1700 melodius, pre-1700 melodyous, pre-1700 1700s– melodious.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French melodieux.

Etymology: < Middle French melodieux (1280 in Old French as melodieus ; French mélodieux ) < melodie melody n. + -eux -ous suffix. Compare Italian melodioso (14th cent.), Spanish melodioso (c1440), and post-classical Latin melodiosus (15th cent. in a British source).

1. Of music, speech, etc.: characterized by melody; having a sweet or pleasant sound; tuneful. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > [adjective] > musical or harmonious

musica1382

cordant1382

melodiousa1425

musicala1449

consonant?1521

warbling1549

harmoniousc1550

tunable1579

symphonical1589

symphoniacal1650

symphonious1652

consonous1654

harmonic1667

symphonous1814

symphonic1864

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

a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. 577 Herde I myn alderlevest lady..with vois melodious Syngen.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) Prol. 48 (MED) Orpheus, Whos dites wern so mellodyus.

c1475 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1913) 130 310 (MED) Thus they sang..The melodyouse ympne.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxii. 66 He..blewe so melodyous a blast.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 164 And your figures rhethoricall..doe also conteine a certaine sweet and melodious manner of speech.

1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xiii, in Poems 7 Ring out ye Crystall sphears,..And let your silver chime Move in melodious time.

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress (ed. 2) 272 And now were these too men..in Heaven, before they came at it; being swallowed up with the sight of Angels, and with hearing of their melodious notes.

1700 J. Dryden Char. Good Parson in Fables 532 A Musick more melodious than the Spheres.

1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 11 Apr. 2/2 A melodious Consort of Vocal and Instrumental Musick.

1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 375/2 That an air which was never set or intended for words, however melodious, cannot be imitative.

1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. iv. 31 Melodious sounds were not long in rising from the frying-pan on the fire.

1895 H. G. Wells Time Machine v. 40 The idea was received with melodious applause.

1927 Passing Show Summer 46/1 Gone would be his wonderous power of rhetoric, and his melodious, sale-compelling voice would be reduced to an impotent lisp!

1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 42 I have memories of..the Town Hall clock's melodious chime.

1997 Darts Player 98 34/1 We sailed graciously away from Southampton to the melodious sounds of a brass band.

2. Of a musician, musical instrument, etc.: producing a pleasant melody or song; sweet-toned. Also in extended use.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [adjective] > sweet music

melodiousc1450

warbling1549

harmonious1737

c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 1779 But al her syngyng was in weyn To be compared, in sothnesse, Vnto the excellent swetnesse Of this Floyte melodious.

1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. f. 71 Instruments of musicke, whiche sometime wresting up the stringes, and sometime by loosing them, become more melodious.

1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. iii. 4 By his discreete and wholsome lessons vttered in harmonie and with melodious instruments.

1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iii. i. 85 Where like a sweete mellodious bird it sung.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 143 The lovely Bride, In safety goes, with her Melodious Guide [sc. Orpheus] .

1723 N. Amhurst Poems Several Occasions (ed. 2) 6 The Lark melodious, poiz'd on levell'd Wings, Hangs in mid Air.

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 574 The walk..unconscious once Of other tenants than melodious birds.

1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 141 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when [etc.].

1891 F. Adams John Webb's End i. ii. 33 Flying for a moment by a lovely, melodious top-knot pigeon.

1932 A. Huxley Brave New World v. 89 The sexophones wailed like melodious cats under the moon.

1990 Rev. Eng. Stud. 41 142 As for tunefulness, Larkin is frequently more melodious than his great love, Hardy.

†3. Susceptible to melody; attuned to or appreciative of melody. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xlix. 5 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 44 Wordes shall from my mouth proceed; Which I will measure by melodious eare.

1613 E. Heyward in W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. sig. A5 The younger Cygnet, euen at best, doth teare, With his harsh squealings, the melodious eare.

4. Having or containing a melody or melodies; melodic. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [adjective] > having a melody

strained1589

melodious1728

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Melody Yet so far as the Bass may be made airy, and to sing well, it may be also properly said to be Melodious.

1818 T. Busby Gram. Music 59 The first rudiments of the simplest province of musical composition, and musical performance,—melodious succession.

1992 C. Paglia Sex, Art & Amer. Culture 117 Melodrama means melodious dramaturgy, a musical theater.

Compounds

melodious warbler n. a greenish-brown warbler with a yellow underside, Hippolais polyglotta (family Sylviidae), found in woods and scrubland of south-western Europe and West Africa.

ΚΠ

1823 J. Latham Gen. Hist. Birds VII. 105 Melodious warbler... M. Levaillant met with this species about Pampoen Kraal; it had a melodious song.

1881 H. E. Dresser List European Birds 9 Hypolais polyglotta... Melodious warbler.

1932 Discovery June 194/2 Other species of which the remains came into my hands were all those of European birds..melodius- [sic] , and grasshopper-warblers.

1991 Times 24 Aug. 17/3 Birders—check warblers along the coast. Chance of barred, icterine and greenish warblers on east coast, melodious and aquatic [warblers] on south and southwest.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	melodious
释义	melodiousadj. Brit. /mᵻˈləʊdɪəs/, U.S. /məˈloʊdiəs/ Forms: late Middle English meledious, late Middle English mellodyus, late Middle English melodiose, late Middle English melodius, late Middle English melodyouws, late Middle English melodyows, late Middle English melydiows, late Middle English melydyus, late Middle English–1500s mellodyous, late Middle English–1500s melodyous, late Middle English–1500s melodyouse, late Middle English–1600s mellodious, late Middle English– melodious, 1500s melodyus, 1600s mellodius; Scottish pre-1700 melodius, pre-1700 melodyous, pre-1700 1700s– melodious. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French melodieux. Etymology: < Middle French melodieux (1280 in Old French as melodieus ; French mélodieux ) < melodie melody n. + -eux -ous suffix. Compare Italian melodioso (14th cent.), Spanish melodioso (c1440), and post-classical Latin melodiosus (15th cent. in a British source). 1. Of music, speech, etc.: characterized by melody; having a sweet or pleasant sound; tuneful. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > [adjective] > musical or harmonious musica1382 cordant1382 melodiousa1425 musicala1449 consonant?1521 warbling1549 harmoniousc1550 tunable1579 symphonical1589 symphoniacal1650 symphonious1652 consonous1654 harmonic1667 symphonous1814 symphonic1864 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 a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. 577 Herde I myn alderlevest lady..with vois melodious Syngen. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) Prol. 48 (MED) Orpheus, Whos dites wern so mellodyus. c1475 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1913) 130 310 (MED) Thus they sang..The melodyouse ympne. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xxii. 66 He..blewe so melodyous a blast. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 164 And your figures rhethoricall..doe also conteine a certaine sweet and melodious manner of speech. 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xiii, in Poems 7 Ring out ye Crystall sphears,..And let your silver chime Move in melodious time. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress (ed. 2) 272 And now were these too men..in Heaven, before they came at it; being swallowed up with the sight of Angels, and with hearing of their melodious notes. 1700 J. Dryden Char. Good Parson in Fables 532 A Musick more melodious than the Spheres. 1713 G. Berkeley in Guardian 11 Apr. 2/2 A melodious Consort of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. 1797 Encycl. Brit. XI. 375/2 That an air which was never set or intended for words, however melodious, cannot be imitative. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. iv. 31 Melodious sounds were not long in rising from the frying-pan on the fire. 1895 H. G. Wells Time Machine v. 40 The idea was received with melodious applause. 1927 Passing Show Summer 46/1 Gone would be his wonderous power of rhetoric, and his melodious, sale-compelling voice would be reduced to an impotent lisp! 1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 42 I have memories of..the Town Hall clock's melodious chime. 1997 Darts Player 98 34/1 We sailed graciously away from Southampton to the melodious sounds of a brass band. 2. Of a musician, musical instrument, etc.: producing a pleasant melody or song; sweet-toned. Also in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [adjective] > sweet music melodiousc1450 warbling1549 harmonious1737 c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) 1779 But al her syngyng was in weyn To be compared, in sothnesse, Vnto the excellent swetnesse Of this Floyte melodious. 1581 G. Pettie tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. f. 71 Instruments of musicke, whiche sometime wresting up the stringes, and sometime by loosing them, become more melodious. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. iii. 4 By his discreete and wholsome lessons vttered in harmonie and with melodious instruments. 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iii. i. 85 Where like a sweete mellodious bird it sung. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 143 The lovely Bride, In safety goes, with her Melodious Guide [sc. Orpheus] . View more context for this quotation 1723 N. Amhurst Poems Several Occasions (ed. 2) 6 The Lark melodious, poiz'd on levell'd Wings, Hangs in mid Air. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 574 The walk..unconscious once Of other tenants than melodious birds. 1850 R. W. Emerson Swedenborg in Representative Men iii. 141 Melodious poets shall be hoarse as street ballads, when [etc.]. 1891 F. Adams John Webb's End i. ii. 33 Flying for a moment by a lovely, melodious top-knot pigeon. 1932 A. Huxley Brave New World v. 89 The sexophones wailed like melodious cats under the moon. 1990 Rev. Eng. Stud. 41 142 As for tunefulness, Larkin is frequently more melodious than his great love, Hardy. †3. Susceptible to melody; attuned to or appreciative of melody. Obsolete. ΚΠ c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme xlix. 5 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 44 Wordes shall from my mouth proceed; Which I will measure by melodious eare. 1613 E. Heyward in W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals I. sig. A5 The younger Cygnet, euen at best, doth teare, With his harsh squealings, the melodious eare. 4. Having or containing a melody or melodies; melodic. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > melody or succession of sounds > [adjective] > having a melody strained1589 melodious1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Melody Yet so far as the Bass may be made airy, and to sing well, it may be also properly said to be Melodious. 1818 T. Busby Gram. Music 59 The first rudiments of the simplest province of musical composition, and musical performance,—melodious succession. 1992 C. Paglia Sex, Art & Amer. Culture 117 Melodrama means melodious dramaturgy, a musical theater. Compounds melodious warbler n. a greenish-brown warbler with a yellow underside, Hippolais polyglotta (family Sylviidae), found in woods and scrubland of south-western Europe and West Africa. ΚΠ 1823 J. Latham Gen. Hist. Birds VII. 105 Melodious warbler... M. Levaillant met with this species about Pampoen Kraal; it had a melodious song. 1881 H. E. Dresser List European Birds 9 Hypolais polyglotta... Melodious warbler. 1932 Discovery June 194/2 Other species of which the remains came into my hands were all those of European birds..melodius- [sic] , and grasshopper-warblers. 1991 Times 24 Aug. 17/3 Birders—check warblers along the coast. Chance of barred, icterine and greenish warblers on east coast, melodious and aquatic [warblers] on south and southwest. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1425
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