单词 | tuneful |
释义 | tunefuladj. 1. Full of ‘tune’ or musical sound; musical, sweet-sounding. ΘΚΠ 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 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. Ad Rithmum sig. Ev In tunefull numbers keeping musicks time. 1697 M. Prior Satire Mod. Transl. 120 The just Measure of a tuneful Dance. a1764 R. Lloyd Actor in Poet. Wks. (1774) I. 22 The tuneful voice, the eye that spoke the mind. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iv. xi. 143 His bright and brief career is o'er, And mute his tuneful strains. 1843 G. P. R. James Forest Days I. iii. 34 It was a time of year when the whole world was tuneful. 2. Producing or yielding musical sounds; making melody; performing or skilled in music; musical (as a person, instrument, etc.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > [adjective] tuneful1591 executant1865 1591 E. Spenser Teares of Muses in Complaints 27 The trembling streames..were by them right tunefull taught to beare A Bases part amongst their consorts oft. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 13 With his tunefull Lyre, Expels th' ill Spirit which doth the body tyre. 1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd ii. 290 With chaunt of tuneful Birds resounding loud. View more context for this quotation 1704 M. Prior Let. to Boileau Despreaux 18 When thy young Muse invok'd the tuneful Nine. a1736 T. Yalden To Congreve in Poet. Wks. (1833) 21 From tuneful Chaucer's, down to thy own Dryden's Muse. 1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel Introd. 3 For, well-a-day! their date was fled, His tuneful brethren all were dead. 1878 H. S. Leigh Town Garland 10 I listen, contented and calm, to a band Of the tuneful Teutonics who favour the Strand. 3. Relating or adapted to music. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > [adjective] musica1382 musical1447 rural1488 harmonic1570 harmonical1603 pure1605 tuneful1697 melophonic1843 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals ix, in tr. Virgil Wks. 42 A Member of the tuneful trade. 1772 W. Jones Poems 124 Ev'n Pan thy tuneful skill confess'd. 1842 J. G. Whittier Raphael xviii Think ye the notes of holy song On Milton's tuneful ear have died? Derivatives ˈtunefully adv. in a tuneful manner, with sweet sound, musically. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adverb] > melodious or harmonious sweetly1340 melodiouslya1449 sweet1568 soot1579 tunably1586 harmonically1589 consort1590 harmoniously1611 tunefully1656 symphoniously1757 nightingaly1870 1656 A. Cowley Davideis i. 13 in Poems Storehouse of all Proportions! single Quire! Which first Gods Breath did tunefully inspire! 1798 W. Wordsworth Peter Bell Prol. xv How tunefully the forests ring! ˈtunefulness n. tuneful or musical quality. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [noun] > beauty of sound or melody melodyc1300 harmonyc1384 sweetness1398 melodiousness1530 tunableness1561 well-sounding1594 air1597 chime1608 suavity1614 melos1740 songfulness1850 tunefulness1882 tuniness1905 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Tunefulness. 1893 L. S. Keyser in Advance (Chicago) 3 Aug. 588/4 A song sparrow..taking the bays for real tunefulness from every rival. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.1591 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。