symphoniousadj.
/sɪmˈfəʊnɪəs/, U.S. /sɪmˈfoʊniəs/ Only in literary use.
1.
a. Full of or characterized by ‘symphony’ or harmony of sounds (symphony n. 2); sounding pleasantly together or with something else; concordant; harmonious: = harmonious adj. 2.
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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
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila vi. lxix. 90 All, what Symphonious Breaths inspire, All, what Quick Fingers touch.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 559 The sound Symphonious of ten thousand Harpes that tun'd Angelic harmonies. View more context for this quotation
1757 T. Gray Ode II iii. ii, in Odes 20 What strings symphonious tremble in the air.
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 162 The sprightly lyre..And the clear voice symphonious, yet distinct,..Beguile the night.
1835 W. Hay in Blackwood's Mag. 38 401 Whom the Muse taught to steal..Tones from the lyre symphonious with her own!
1841 H. Smith Moneyed Man I. viii. 226 Listening entranced to the symphonious music of the spheres.
1865 R. C. Trench Prize of Song in Poems v At that melody symphonious Joy to Nature's heart was sent.
b. figurative or gen. Marked by ‘symphony’ or agreement (symphony n. 3); agreeing, accordant: = harmonious adj. 1. Const. to, with. (Often with direct allusion to preceding sense.)
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the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > [adjective]
samtalec1175
samentalea1300
accordingc1300
accordantc1350
covenablec1384
concordable1393
accorda1413
suant1418
consonant1489
convenablea1500
concordant1512
semblable1513
convenient1526
modulatec1530
harmonical1531
harmoniacal1536
agreeable1540
concurrent1542
suitable1568
concinne1569
harmonial1569
sympathical1570
tunable1573
coherenta1575
conspiring1576
well-consenting1579
well-consorted1583
congruous1599
high-tuned1603
symbolizing1611
unjarring1620
concording1627
congruenta1637
harmonious1638
friendlya1641
unclashing1642
complying1646
symphoniacal1650
consistent1651
consentaneous1652
consentivea1657
symbolical1667
concordiousa1670
sympathetic1673
congenerous1677
symbolizant1685
congenial1693
symphonious1743
harmonic1756
concentual1782
undiscordant1819
concordial1822
attuned1833
connate1836
sympathetical1848
concentuous1850
consenting1858
consilient1867
tuned in1958
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 35 Future Life symphonious to my Strain, (That noblest Hymn to Heaven!).
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) II. 793/2 The word menoikes..signifies what is symphonious to the mind, what soothes its weakness.
1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab vi. 75 Of purest spirits, a pure dwelling-place, Symphonious with the planetary spheres.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. v. 222 Their life was not quite symphonious.
1878 R. L. Stevenson Inland Voy. 53 The shadows, the rich lights and the silence, made a symphonious accompaniment about our walk.
2. Sounding together or in concert.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > sound of instruments > [adjective] > sounding together
symphonious1816
well-orchestrated1872
1816 T. L. Peacock Headlong Hall xi. 146 In conjunction with the symphonious scraping of fiddles.
1862 Symonds in H. F. Brown Life (1895) I. v. 255 Strange inexplicable chords and combinations of symphonious instruments.
3. Sounded alike: = symphonic adj. 1b. rare.
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the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [adjective] > similar in sound
homophone1623
consonant1645
unison1675
homotonous1775
symphonious1786
idem sonans1822
homophonous1826
paronymous1835
antiphonetic1840
co-sonant1856
monophonous1869
symphonic1880
homophonic1942
1786 J. Pinkerton Anc. Sc. Poems I. p. cxliii Synorthographic and Symphonious Words.
Derivatives
symˈphoniously adv. harmoniously.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > pleasantness of sound > [adverb] > musically or harmoniously
melodiouslya1449
harmonically1589
harmoniously1611
accordant1755
symphoniously1757
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adverb] > melodious or harmonious
sweetly1340
melodiouslya1449
sweet1568
soot1579
tunably1586
harmonically1589
consort1590
harmoniously1611
tunefully1656
symphoniously1757
nightingaly1870
1757 J. G. Cooper Apol. Aristippus iii. 45 Gresset's clear Pipe..Symphoniously combines in one Each former Bards mellifluent Tone.
1804 J. Grahame Sabbath 78 A thousand notes symphoniously ascend.
1842 G. S. Faber Provinc. Lett. (1844) II. 223 [The Church] symphoniously declares..these things, as having only one mouth.
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