musicaladjective
uk/ˈmjuː.zɪ.kəl/us/ˈmjuː.zɪ.kəl/A2 related to or connected with music:
musical instruments
Mozart's musical compositions include symphonies and operas.
C1 If you are musical, you have a skill in or a great liking for music:
Joe's family all play instruments - they're very musical.
More examples
- He says it's the best musical equipment you can buy, but I think that's open to dispute.
- Even with a load of electronic gadgetry, you still need some musical ability to write a successful song.
- It's being hyped as the musical event of the year.
- Some of the younger pop bands try to imitate their musical heroes from the past.
- The musical interludes don't really fit in with the rest of the play.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Writing, reading & studying music
- compose
- composition
- follow
- harmonize
- music
- music-making
- musicology
- orchestrate
- pentatonic scale
- recompose
- setting
- sheet music
- sight-read
- sol-fa
- songwriter
- tone-deaf
- transpose
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Playing music
musically
adverb uk/ˈmjuː.zɪ.kəl.i/us/ˈmjuː.zɪ.kəl.i/
C2
It's a school for musically gifted children (= those who are very good at playing a musical instrument or singing).
Musically speaking (= referring to the music they produce), this band has a lot of talent.
musicalnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈmjuː.zɪ.kəl/us/ˈmjuː.zɪ.kəl/B2 a play or film in which part of the story is sung to music
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Theatre - general words
- break a leg idiom
- drama
- dramatic
- dramatically
- hold sth over
- immersive
- jukebox musical
- kabuki
- music theatre
- opening night
- premiere
- preview
- run
- run and run idiom
- slapstick
- theatre
- theatre in the round
- theatregoer
- thespian
- vaudeville
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Cinema ratings & types of film