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euphonious

adj · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /juːˈfəʊ.nɪ.əs/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • General-American: /juˈfoʊ.ni.əs/
  • rhymes with -əʊniəs

1

adj

Meaning 1

Of sounds, especially speech: demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: euphonic, euphonical, euphonous, mellifluous, sonorous

Antonyms: cacophonous, noneuphonious, uneuphonious, absonant, cacophonic, cacophonical, cacophonious, discordant, disharmonious, dissonant, honeyed, horrisonant, horrisonous, immelodious, inharmonious, insonorous, nonsonorous, raucous, rough, scabrous, tuneless, unmusical, unharmonious, unlistenable, unmellifluous, unmelodic, unmelodious, untunable, unsonorous

2

adjective

Meaning 2

having a pleasant sound

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a euphonious trill of silver laughter

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: euphonous

Antonyms: cacophonous

3

adjective satellite

Meaning 3

(of speech or dialect) pleasing in sound; not harsh or strident

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • her euphonious Southern speech

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From euphonical + -ous (suffix forming adjectives denoting possession or presence of a quality, commonly in abundance). Euphonical is derived from euphonic + -al (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’); with euphonic from euphony + -ic (suffix forming adjectives with the sense ‘of or pertaining to’), and euphony borrowed from French euphonie, from Ancient Greek εὐφωνία (euphōnía), from εὐ- (eu-, prefix meaning ‘good, well’) + φωνή (phōnḗ, “sound; (human) voice; discourse, speech”) (from Proto-Indo-European *bheh2- (“to say, speak”)) + -ῐ́ᾱ (-ĭ́ā, suffix forming feminine abstract nouns).

Across languages

Translations

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Chinese Mandarin: 好聽 /好听 (hǎotīng) — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Chinese Mandarin: 上口 (shàngkǒu) — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Czech: libozvučný — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Dutch: welluidend — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Esperanto: belsona — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Estonian: eufooniline — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Estonian: kaunikõlaline — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Finnish: soinnukas — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Finnish: sointuva — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • French: euphonique — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • German: wohlklingend — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • German: wohltönend — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Hungarian: dallamos — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Hungarian: fülbemászó — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Hungarian: melodikus — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Icelandic: ómblíður — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Icelandic: ómþýður — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Icelandic: smellinn — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Italian: armonioso — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Latin: canōrus — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Macedonian: еуфоничен (eufoničen) — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Middle English: glorious — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Polish: eufoniczny — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Russian: благозву́чный (blagozvúčnyj) — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Spanish: armonioso — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Swedish: eufonisk — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Tamil: செவிக்கினிய (cevikkiṉiya) — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Telugu: శ్రావ్యమైన (śrāvyamaina) — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Thai: มอน (mɔɔn) — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Vietnamese: dễ nghe — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Vietnamese: êm tai — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding
  • Welsh: perseiniol — demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding