| 单词 | euphonious |
| 释义 | euphonious (once / 18942 pages) adj Something euphonious sounds beautiful and pleasant. "You have a euphonious voice!" is a great compliment for a singer. This word sounds pretty when you say it, so it makes sense that it describes something pleasing to the ear. Most often, this word applies to music (probably not a heavy metal band, though). A great public speaker might have a euphonious voice. A well-written poem sounds euphonious. Many people find the sounds of nature euphonious. But the sound of barking, howling dogs? Not euphonious. WORD FAMILYeuphonious: euphoniously+/euphonic: euphonically/euphony: euphonic, euphonical, euphonies, euphonious, euphonous USAGE EXAMPLESThe piece is euphonious, affectionate and beautifully scored for strings. Los Angeles Times(Nov 07, 2016) West himself emphasized in his euphonious narration that the “music goes hand in hand with the politics.” Salon(May 25, 2016) James Atlas calls it “haphazard, euphonious, virtually incomprehensible effusions . . . imitative of Hopkins, Yeats, Shelly.” The New Yorker(Feb 18, 2016) 1adj having a pleasant sound a euphonious trill of silver laughter Syn|Ant euphonous golden suggestive of gold silvern, silveryresembling or reminiscent of silver cacophonic, cacophonous having an unpleasant sound cackly, squawkylike the cackles or squawks a hen makes especially after laying an egg croaky, gutturallike the sounds of frogs and crows grating, gravelly, rasping, raspy, rough, scratchyunpleasantly harsh or grating in sound gruff, hoarse, huskydeep and harsh sounding as if from shouting or illness or emotion jangling, janglylike the discordant ringing of nonmusical metallic objects striking together jarringmaking or causing a harsh and irritating sound raucous, stridentunpleasantly loud and harsh rending, ripping, splittingresembling a sound of violent tearing as of something ripped apart or lightning splitting a tree noisyfull of or characterized by loud and nonmusical sounds 2adj (of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident her euphonious Southern speech Syn soft (of sound) relatively low in volume |
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