as in melodic
having a pleasantly flowing quality suggestive of music
a rich, mellifluous voice that gets her a lot of work in radio and TV commercials
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Recent Examples of mellifluous
What could've been a quick journey turns into a 10-year expedition filled with mythical creatures and near-death experiences involving a Cyclops, the mellifluous Sirens, and the witch-goddess Circe, as played by Charlize Theron.
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Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 17 July 2025
But for all its funny parts, the show highlights Reilly’s mellifluous croon, honed from an upbringing performing musical theatre.
—Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2025
If anything, a Grande song is going to sound mellifluous, no matter its message.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
The mellifluous tenor that narrated Dodgers games for generations of Spanish-language listeners hasn’t weakened.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2025
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Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 17 July 2025
But for all its funny parts, the show highlights Reilly’s mellifluous croon, honed from an upbringing performing musical theatre.
—Jason Newman, Rolling Stone, 15 June 2025
If anything, a Grande song is going to sound mellifluous, no matter its message.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
The mellifluous tenor that narrated Dodgers games for generations of Spanish-language listeners hasn’t weakened.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mellifluous
Adjective
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His flow, while indeed reminiscent of Max B, has its own melodic pocket that could easily fit in the context of jazz or pop music.—
Jeff Ihaza,
Rolling Stone,
12 Sep. 2025
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Tintinnabuli was inspired, in part, by Pärt’s interest in much earlier styles of Christian music, including Gregorian chant – the single-voice singing of Roman Catholicism – and Renaissance polyphony, which weaves together multiple melodic lines.—
Jeffers Engelhardt,
The Conversation,
10 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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For three-quarters of its pages, the book reads like a paean to dope, a lyrical testament to the transcendent bliss of the first time using, and to the futile effort to recapture it.—
Scott Stossel,
The Atlantic,
9 Sep. 2025
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Busta also received an assist from Papoose and Joyner Lucas, all of them sharing lyrical wordplay and seamless tradeoffs as Busta swung between his trademark dichotomy of rapping to gruff bellowing.—
Melissa Ruggieri,
USA Today,
8 Sep. 2025
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The lyric change brought immediate screams inside Estadio River Plate and across the Swift world.—
Doha Madani,
NBC news,
26 Aug. 2025
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This is why Dijon’s language works best as sound, not narrative—his rangy, raspy voice seethes and triumphs, mocks and threatens; there’s no world in which his polygonal perspective can be discerned from a lyric sheet.—
Brady Brickner-Wood,
New Yorker,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Mellifluous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mellifluous. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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