adj
Meaning 1
Having a pleasant melody or sound; tuneful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
melodious
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.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /məˈləʊdi.əs/
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General-American: /məˈloʊdi.əs/
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rhymes with -əʊdiəs
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adjective
Meaning 2
containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the melodious song of a meadowlark
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: melodic, musical
Antonyms: unmelodious
adjective
Meaning 3
having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tune
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: tuneful
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English melodious, from Middle French melodieus, melodieux. By surface analysis, melod(i) + -ous.
Across languages
Translations
45 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Azerbaijani: ahəngdar — having a pleasant melody
- Azerbaijani: melodik — having a pleasant melody
- Bulgarian: мелодичен (melodičen) — having a pleasant melody
- Catalan: melodiós — having a pleasant melody
- Chinese Mandarin: 旋律優美的 /旋律优美的 (xúanlǜ yōuměi de) — having a pleasant melody
- Danish: melodiøs — having a pleasant melody
- Dutch: melodieus — having a pleasant melody
- Esperanto: melodia — having a pleasant melody
- Finnish: melodinen — having a pleasant melody
- Finnish: soinnukas — having a pleasant melody
- French: mélodieux — having a pleasant melody
- Galician: melodioso — having a pleasant melody
- German: melodiös — having a pleasant melody
- German: melodisch — having a pleasant melody
- Greek: μελωδικός (melodikós) — having a pleasant melody
- Hungarian: melodikus — having a pleasant melody
- Hungarian: dallamos — having a pleasant melody
- Irish: duanach — having a pleasant melody
- Japanese: 旋律の美しい (senritsu no ttsukushii) — having a pleasant melody
- Japanese: 旋律的な (senritsu-teki na) — having a pleasant melody
- Kalmyk: эгшгтә (egşgtä) — having a pleasant melody
- Kazakh: әуезді (äuezdı) — having a pleasant melody
- Kazakh: әуенді (äuendı) — having a pleasant melody
- Kazakh: сазды (sazdy) — having a pleasant melody
- Kazakh: сарынды (saryndy) — having a pleasant melody
- Latin: canōrus — having a pleasant melody
- Lithuanian: dainingas — having a pleasant melody
- Māori: rōreka — having a pleasant melody
- Māori: wainene — having a pleasant melody
- Māori: waitī — having a pleasant melody
- Middle English: melodious — having a pleasant melody
- Norwegian Bokmål: melodiøs — having a pleasant melody
- Norwegian Bokmål: melodisk — having a pleasant melody
- Norwegian Nynorsk: melodiøs — having a pleasant melody
- Norwegian Nynorsk: melodisk — having a pleasant melody
- Polish: melodyjny — having a pleasant melody
- Portuguese: melodioso — having a pleasant melody
- Portuguese: melódico — having a pleasant melody
- Romanian: melodios — having a pleasant melody
- Russian: мелоди́чный (melodíčnyj) — having a pleasant melody
- Scottish Gaelic: mànranach — having a pleasant melody
- Spanish: melodioso — having a pleasant melody
- Swedish: melodiös — having a pleasant melody
- Turkish: ahenkli — having a pleasant melody
- Ukrainian: мелоді́йний (melodíjnyj) — having a pleasant melody