1
as in melodic
having a pleasantly flowing quality suggestive of music
the musical sounds of the babbling brook
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as in symphonic
having a pleasing mixture of notes
the song of the skylark has been celebrated for being especially musical
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as in comedy
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Recent Examples of musical
Jeryl Brunner, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
After playing that new material just once live in concert, though, Lowe and Weakley decided to leave the band in early 1968, disenchanted with the Electric Prunes’ financial difficulties and musical road bumps.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 1 June 2025
Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 May 2025
They are also both nominated for best leading actress in a musical at the Tony Awards, airing June 8 from Radio City Music Hall (8 ET/5 PT on CBS and streaming on Paramount+).
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 23 May 2025
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Adjective
The new Broadway musical Real Women Have Curves is making a big splash at the James Earl Jones Theatre.
—Jeryl Brunner, Forbes.com, 1 June 2025
After playing that new material just once live in concert, though, Lowe and Weakley decided to leave the band in early 1968, disenchanted with the Electric Prunes’ financial difficulties and musical road bumps.
—Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 1 June 2025
Noun
The production, directed by Paul Spurrier, marks the first Thai musical in over 50 years and is the first Thai film produced entirely in English.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 May 2025
They are also both nominated for best leading actress in a musical at the Tony Awards, airing June 8 from Radio City Music Hall (8 ET/5 PT on CBS and streaming on Paramount+).
—Patrick Ryan, USA Today, 23 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical
Adjective
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One of Clausen’s greatest strengths was that ability to write in many different styles, from symphonic to jazzy to contemporary, sometimes riffing on famous film scores or other pop-cultural references, and do it in as little as a few seconds, just enough to make a comedic point.—
Jon Burlingame,
Variety,
30 May 2025
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The power of symphonic strings can totally capture Seals.—
Jed Gottlieb,
Boston Herald,
25 May 2025
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The Emmy-winning comedy has been renewed for a fifth season.—
Christopher Rudolph,
People.com,
30 May 2025
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Kellett is a veteran television writer/producer and this 90-minute play has the look and feel of a TV comedy, with fast pacing, a steady flow of zinging one-liners, plenty of actor double-takes and eye rolls and a predictable happy ending.—
Pam Kragen,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
30 May 2025
Adjective
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More specifically, tracks from his 2011 debut mixtape House of Balloons were delivered with the urgency and conviction of that same mysterious musician with a penchant for lyrical tawdriness.—
Candace McDuffie,
VIBE.com,
6 June 2025
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There’s seemingly not much back-and-forth on the lyrical themes or specifics.—
Katherine Turman,
Los Angeles Times,
28 May 2025
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Is there a specific fragment of his soul where all that beautiful melodrama stems from?—
Ernesto Lechner,
Los Angeles Times,
21 May 2025
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The film struggles to let scenes breathe, bludgeons us too frequently with music cues and skips out on crucial emotional beats to replace them with less effective melodrama.—
Brandon Yu,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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Kate Beckinsale debuted a new tattoo in honor of her late father, Richard Beckinsale Richard died in 1979 when the actress was 5 years old Her arm tattoo features a David Bowie lyric Kate Beckinsale is honoring her late dad.—
Catherine Santino,
People.com,
5 June 2025
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As the Duke, René Barbera, a light and agreeably lyric tenor, goes his own way.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
3 June 2025
Noun
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In Facility Theatre’s new revival of the Irish playwright’s absurdist tragicomedy, the blind and paralyzed character (played by artistic director Kirk Anderson) looks like a slightly steampunk Scrooge, writes Emily McClanathan.—
Chicago Tribune,
Chicago Tribune,
27 May 2025
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The man who shuffled offstage last year in the middle of the play — an absurdist tragicomedy plagued by poor reviews and weak attendance — has shuffled back onto it.—
Rich Lowry,
National Review,
9 May 2025
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In the musical comedy franchise about fictional Barden University’s all-female a cappella club, Kendrick played Beca, alongside Wilson's Fat Amy and Fit's character Flo.—
Jen Juneau,
People.com,
16 Apr. 2025
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In addition to working on new music, Bailey is also starring in an A24 musical comedy with Julianne Moore and Jesse Eisenberg, and is set to film in Italy for a separate project (Bailey will star in Italianna with Regé-Jean Page, but details on the film have not been released).—
Michelle Lee,
People.com,
10 May 2025
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And there are many things that people can actually do to get this transcendence, to get away from the tedium of the psychodrama of your own life.—
NBC News,
NBC news,
25 May 2025
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The endless psychodrama surrounding the national team is merely a symptom of the chaos.—
Jack Lang,
New York Times,
16 May 2025
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“Musical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musical. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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