| 单词 | melodious |
| 释义 | melodious (once / 1590 pages) adj Use the adjective melodious to describe something that sounds like music, like a babbling brook or a little boy's soft humming. Anything that makes a pleasant, tuneful sound can be called melodious, which makes sense when you spot the word melody in melodious. Both have a root in common, the Greek word meloidia, which means "singing, or a tune for lyric poetry." It, in turn, comes from melos, or "song." WORD FAMILYmelodious: melodiously, melodiousness, unmelodious+/melodize: melodized, melodizes/melody: melodies, melodious, melodize/unmelodious: unmelodiously USAGE EXAMPLESHowever, two nurses at Sunnybrook are bringing Christmas cheer to this tiny patient in their own melodious way. Time(Dec 23, 2016) After we said the last Hail Mary, my head snapped back when I heard the raised, melodious voice. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Purple Hibiscus(2003) She’s followed around by a melodious female Greek chorus. Seattle Times(Oct 25, 2016) 1adj having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune Syn|Ant tuneful tuneless, unmelodious, untuneful not having a musical sound or pleasing tune 2adj containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody the melodious song of a meadowlark Syn|Ant melodic, musical ariose, songlike having a melody (as distinguished from recitative) canorous, songfulrichly melodious cantabile, singingsmooth and flowing dulcet, honeyed, mellifluous, mellisonant, sweetpleasing to the ear lyricalsuitable for or suggestive of singing unmelodic, unmelodious, unmusical lacking melody |
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