songlike

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for songlike
Adjective
  • The festival kicks off Thursday night with a Grand Tasting featuring small bites from local chefs, wine poured by the winemakers themselves, and a rhythmic night of music from The Psycodelics to round it out.
    Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 31 Oct. 2025
  • The crowd nodded in rhythmic agreement.
    Nik Popli, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The boys are now competitive dancers, doing jazz, tap and lyrical ballet, and Donoghue keeps in touch with many of the performers, sending them Christmas cards and messaging them on Facebook.
    Shannon Pettypiece, NBC news, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Keith Urban's romantic lyrical liberties are to be taken very lightly — so says the country singer amid his divorce from Hollywood superstar Nicole Kidman.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Keith Urban is setting the record straight after fans analyzed his lyric swaps post-Nicole Kidman split.
    Taijuan Moorman, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Nowadays, the musician is encouraging fans to stop reading into his lyric changes.
    Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Bach was lively, supple, and, especially in the Larghetto, generous in its songful musicality.
    Jeremy Eichler, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Sep. 2022
  • In the early going, some tender yet mystic motifs suggest the songful chromaticism of Olivier Messiaen.
    Seth Colter Walls, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2022
Adjective
  • This week, Megan Moroney offers up valuable wisdom enveloped in a lilting ballad, while Maddie Lenhart sings of longing for a carefree night of throwing romantic caution to the wind.
    Jessica Nicholson, Billboard, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The bending roads and lilting knolls of College Grove, Tennessee, about 45 minutes south of Nashville, are still verdant in the late August heat.
    Nick Remsen, Vogue, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Using this approach, the team demonstrated arbitrary pulse shaping, tunable second-harmonic generation, holographic generation of spatio-spectrally structured light, and real-time inverse design of nonlinear-optical functions.
    Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 14 Oct. 2025
  • His music, stuffed with live instrumentation and harmonic sophistication, is suffused with the sound and spirit of Sly Stone, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye, among many others.
    Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 14 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • To close out the festivities, with Orchestra Miami serving as the orchestral partner, a special event is planned for year’s end at the renowned Venetian Pool, a historic pool listed in the National Register of Historic Places.
    Dontaira Terrell, USA Today, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Proudfoot and his team, including Kris Bowers, pull all the right (if predictable) emotional strings, underscoring Hesse’s memories with majestic orchestral music fit for an Old Hollywood epic.
    Christian Zilko, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Similarly, the dozens of people whom Greaves interviews in the film aren’t delivering a single and univocal history of the Harlem Renaissance but a polyphonic transmission of it.
    Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Angela Flournoy follows her highly honored first novel, The Turner House (2016), with an illuminating polyphonic exploration of the glorious heights and darkest lows of friendships among four women.
    Jane Ciabattari September 16, Literary Hub, 16 Sep. 2025
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“Songlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/songlike. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.

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