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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
Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2025
The revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved 1993 musical hit the New York City stage in September 2024.
—Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Christian Lewis, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
The premise of the making of a Marilyn musical is the same, but gone are most of the show's characters and the overall premise of the bitter feud between two women vying for the title party.
—Dave Quinn, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
The hit Broadway musical Death Becomes Her starring Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard leads the list of nominations for this year’s Outer Critics Circle Awards, the organization announced this morning.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 Apr. 2025
The revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's beloved 1993 musical hit the New York City stage in September 2024.
—Madison E. Goldberg, People.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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Instead, the major drama comes in the form of Ivy’s corruption by her acting coach, as Ivy gradually goes method and becomes as difficult to work with as Marilyn was (one of this musical’s many meta moments).
—Christian Lewis, Variety, 11 Apr. 2025
The premise of the making of a Marilyn musical is the same, but gone are most of the show's characters and the overall premise of the bitter feud between two women vying for the title party.
—Dave Quinn, People.com, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical
Adjective
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From honoring Black women’s transformative roles in symphonic music to celebrating gospel legends and Black Southern electronic music, Eldorado Ballroom Houston is both homage and innovation.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
16 Apr. 2025
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The second longest-running symphonic outdoor drama performance in the U.S., the play has been performed every summer since 1937.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
15 Apr. 2025
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Examples include Africa United, a comedy about young Rwandan soccer players; The Trial of Jeff David, a true crime podcast detailing the lives of former slaves falsely accused of murder in the 1800s; and Black Enuf, a cartoon about LGBT hip-hop lovers.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
24 Apr. 2025
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Here are our picks for which dramas, comedies, and limited/anthology series (airing between June 1, 2024 and May 31, 2025) are leading these three key categories.—
Kristen Baldwin,
EW.com,
23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Poetry remains an exciting place where lyrical wordsmiths turn truth into art.—
Lorraine Berry,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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Known for pairing magenta with rhinestones and a lyrical wit, Kirke hasn’t always been country.—
Eva Fedderly,
Architectural Digest,
18 Apr. 2025
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Photo: Everett Collection Most stories about identical twins fall into the genres of horror or comedy, but A Stolen Life, one of the earliest twin movies, opts for sumptuous melodrama.—
Barry Levitt,
Vulture,
18 Apr. 2025
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But this is also Coogler’s riff on the Western, with circling buzzards and black hats; his stylish crime-flick pastiche, with sleek suits and loaded guns; and a Southern Gothic melodrama about the sins of the father and the return of prodigal sons.—
A.A. Dowd,
Rolling Stone,
17 Apr. 2025
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Moreover, the combination of the specific chord progression in the melody paired with the verbatim hook was a greater than 50% clone of Vance’s original work, in both lyric choice and chord expressions.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA TODAY,
21 Mar. 2025
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Doja Rat stated that Strange claimed to have over 300 songs and handwritten lyric sheets.—
Steven J. Horowitz,
Variety,
19 Mar. 2025
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That proved to be the case once more when a major studio balked at his tragicomedy take.—
Brian Davids,
The Hollywood Reporter,
20 Feb. 2025
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Directed by Josef Hader The soil of the Austrian countryside is rich with tragicomedy in writer-director-star Hader’s second feature as a director after 2017’s Wild Mouse.—
Georg Szalai,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Feb. 2025
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Halle Bailey, Havana Rose Liu and Bernadette Peters have joined the untitled musical comedy, which stars Julianne Moore, Paul Giamatti and Eisenberg.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
15 Apr. 2025
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For the rest of us, a real musical comedy is a cause for celebration; most are either too tuneless to be musicals or too dull to be comedies.—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
11 Apr. 2025
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This will test the Jonathan Majors bodybuilding psychodrama that debuted at Sundance in 2023 but was derailed by abuse accusations against its star after winning the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision and a distribution deal with Searchlight Pictures, which dropped it.—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
21 Mar. 2025
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Comic pastiche gives way to tender romantic ballads only to explode in musical psychodrama.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
31 Mar. 2025
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“Musical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musical. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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