tunefuladj.
/ˈtjuːnfʊl/ 1. Full of ‘tune’ or musical sound; musical, sweet-sounding.
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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
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.).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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