melodious
adjective
of the nature of or characterized by melody; tuneful.
melodiousness
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a word derived from
melodious.
Example Sentences
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Glass, of course, set much text to music, sometimes with little stress and other times with robust melodiousness, but in all cases the words came first.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026
The bluntness of these assertions is tempered by the easygoing melodiousness of Ms. Crow’s score.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2015
Reviewing “City to City” in Rolling Stone, Ken Emerson said Mr. Rafferty “writes with the sweet melodiousness of Paul McCartney and sings with John Lennon’s weary huskiness.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 5, 2011
Journalists who heard him warble Margaritaville on election eve can testify that his baritone is notable more for enthusiasm than for melodiousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Style and diction are the determining factors in the poetic form of lyric verse, along with the perhaps indistinguishable and indefinable quality of melodiousness.
From Poems and Songs by Arthur Hubbell Palmer
