melismatic

[ mel-iz-mat-ik ]

/ ˌmɛl ɪzˈmæt ɪk /

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Music. in a musical style that allows several notes to be sung to one syllable of text: The work’s dotted rhythms, soaring melismatic passages, suspensions, and changes of time signature make it the most widely sung of Purcell's choral compositions.The title song is a melismatic rock anthem that's a Top Forty–quality enduring earworm.

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Origin of melismatic

First recorded in 1815–25; from Greek mélismat-, stem of mélisma, “song, tune” (see melisma) + -ic

Words nearby melismatic

meliorate, melioration, meliorism, meliority, melisma, melismatic, Melissa, Melitene, Melitopol, melitose, melitriose