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.
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Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Dec. 2025
Within the Paris setting, Chadwick felt aptly French with her gamine pixie cut, and her mellifluous voice was impressively restrained.
—Sarah Moroz, Pitchfork, 12 Nov. 2025
The mellifluous voices carry a lovely, velvety texture, but don’t be fooled.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
The album, some of which is heard in snatches on the soundtrack, has a mellifluous monotony, as if Springsteen was mesmerized by his own loneliness.
—Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2025
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Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Dec. 2025
Within the Paris setting, Chadwick felt aptly French with her gamine pixie cut, and her mellifluous voice was impressively restrained.
—Sarah Moroz, Pitchfork, 12 Nov. 2025
The mellifluous voices carry a lovely, velvety texture, but don’t be fooled.
—David John Chávez, Mercury News, 28 Oct. 2025
The album, some of which is heard in snatches on the soundtrack, has a mellifluous monotony, as if Springsteen was mesmerized by his own loneliness.
—Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for mellifluous
Adjective
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There has never quite been a critical or scholarly consensus about them, but Bellini, whose music is suspended somewhere between Rossini’s precise brilliance and Donizetti’s rhetorical force, can move audiences with his melodic facility.—
Arya Roshanian,
The New York Review of Books,
6 June 2026
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Where most conversations are half-silent, important figures in Rimbaud’s life are embodied by musical instruments, ranging from overbearing tubas to melodic strings, depending on who’s speaking and their place in the story.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
2 June 2026
Adjective
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Halberstam called Heat games on radio from 1992 to 1998, displaying a lyrical style and a rich command of the English language.—
Barry Jackson,
Miami Herald,
2 June 2026
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The lyrical direction of this record intrigued me.—
Hanif Abdurraqib,
New Yorker,
31 May 2026
Adjective
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Unlike the rich, powerful qualities of a dramatic soprano, or the warm, singing tone of a lyric soprano, the coloratura soprano possesses a high range (to the second C above middle C and higher) and extreme agility.—
René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
26 May 2026
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In the end, Turn (W)here became largely a book of experimental and lyric essays, some framed as archival documents, passport stamps, and definitions.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 May 2026
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