Mellifluous

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mellifluous \Mel*lif"lu*ous\, a. [L. mellifluus; mel, mellis,
     honey (akin to Gr. ?, Goth. milip) + fluere to flow. See
     {Mildew}, {Fluent}, and cf. {Marmalade}.]
     Flowing as with honey; smooth; flowing sweetly or smoothly;
     as, a mellifluous voice. -- {Mel*lif"lu*ous*ly}, adv.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mellifluous
       adj : pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello" [syn: {dulcet},
              {honeyed}, {mellisonant}, {sweet}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  98 Moby Thesaurus words for "mellifluous":
     accordant, achingly sweet, affable, agreeable, agreeable-sounding,
     ambrosial, amiable, amicable, appealing, ariose, arioso,
     bittersweet, blissful, candied, canorous, cantabile, catchy,
     cheerful, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, desirable,
     dulcet, en rapport, enjoyable, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous,
     fair, fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, fine-toned,
     genial, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, good, goodly,
     gracious, grateful, gratifying, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed,
     honeysweet, likable, liquid, melic, melliferous, mellifluent,
     mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, music-flowing, music-like,
     musical, nectareous, nectarous, nice, pleasant, pleasant-sounding,
     pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, rewarding,
     rich, sacchariferous, satisfying, silver-toned, silver-tongued,
     silver-voiced, silvery, singable, songful, songlike, sonorous,
     sour-sweet, sugarcoated, sugared, sugarsweet, sugary, sweet,
     sweet and pungent, sweet and sour, sweet as sugar, sweet-flowing,
     sweet-sounding, sweetened, sweetish, syrupy, tunable, tuneful,
     welcome