1
as in melodic
having a pleasantly flowing quality suggestive of music
the musical sounds of the babbling brook
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2
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
Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
But at the playhouse, the cast represents regular folks in the present day who are re-enacting scenes from one of the most famous movie musicals of all time.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 July 2025
Pj Green
july 19, Kansas City Star, 19 July 2025
Charli and Daniel have a long history of musical partnership.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 19 July 2025
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Adjective
Eisendrath was no stranger to tying in musicals with film and television.
—Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 14 July 2025
But at the playhouse, the cast represents regular folks in the present day who are re-enacting scenes from one of the most famous movie musicals of all time.
—Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 13 July 2025
Noun
Although only two original members are still performing with the band, musical pioneers Earth, Wind, and Fire still dazzle audiences after more than 50 years of soulful melodies.
—Pj Green
july 19, Kansas City Star, 19 July 2025
Charli and Daniel have a long history of musical partnership.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 19 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical
Adjective
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An outdoor theater shows the long-running symphonic drama The Lost Colony.—
Mike Bezemek,
Smithsonian Magazine,
10 July 2025
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Now our idea is to do original songs in symphonic form with a hip-hop sensibility.—
Roy Trakin,
HollywoodReporter,
9 July 2025
Noun
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Blending comedy, magical realism and emotional depth, the story explores intergenerational trauma, identity and belonging.—
Anna Marie de la Fuente,
Variety,
29 July 2025
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Catch a show downtown at the Sunrise Theatre, a 100-year-old venue that hosts regular music performances, plays, and comedy shows.—
Tara Massouleh McCay,
Southern Living,
29 July 2025
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Macy, who plays Arn Peeples, an explosives expert, finds lyrical beauty in an early 20th century America where the outside world is fast closing in on their traditional, pastoral way of life.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
24 July 2025
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Even the title phrase, which Francis immediately fell for, falls pretty squarely in line with classic country wordplay and lyrical imagery.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
21 July 2025
Noun
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The delight of it, the source of its generous dollops of camp melodrama, comes from its ability to convince you that maybe, just maybe, this will be the thing that finally overturns the apple cart.—
Kathryn VanArendonk,
Vulture,
14 July 2025
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Relief because the months-long melodrama over the suit appears to be over (though there are still some big loose ends that need to be tied).—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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One More World is a sustained experiment in constructing a coherent personal register from grand forms – technical, sacrificial, mythological, memorial – and its accomplishment involves the translation of High Modernism into a lyric mode.—
Matthew Carey Salyer,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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Filled with fierce lyric tenderness and clear-eyed commitment to revolutionary aesthetic, Terror Counter devoted to the redemption of the self from a world ready to usurp this resistance.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
24 June 2025
Noun
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Erotic Lives of the Superheroes, a cancer tragicomedy, killer women, and more were among the show pitches presented during the Industry Days program of the 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) on Tuesday.—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
8 July 2025
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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
Noun
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In a tribute shared exclusively with Deadline, musical theater impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh has remembered Tom Lehrer, the musical comedy legend, who has died at the age of 97.—
Jake Kanter,
Deadline,
29 July 2025
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During a two-week, city-wide takeover, over 100 comedians, spanning stand-up, sketch, and musical comedy, are ready to deliver jokes.—
Ana Gutierrez,
Austin American Statesman,
2 July 2025
Noun
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How that psychodrama played out in the UK could have lessons for the US — not least because Cummings eventually succeeded in undermining Johnson’s political career, ultimately defenestrating the prime minister through relentless briefings and leaks.—
Jim Waterson,
semafor.com,
6 June 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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“Musical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/musical. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.
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