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
I can see how a person charmed by, say, the easy melodiousness of Mississippi John Hurt might find something similar to cherish in Giorgos Batis, Stratos Pagioumtzis or other early rebetika performers.
From New York Times ● Sep. 24, 2014
Mr. LaChiusa is an old hand at finding prickly neurotic dissonance within pretty, old-fashioned melodiousness.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2011
Coldplay sticks to conventionally structured songs with melodic piano and guitar arrangements; in its recent work, Radiohead has left standard song forms behind and nearly abandoned traditional pop melodiousness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus the Mozart sonata, while excelling that of Haydn in melodiousness and sweetness, is almost invariably of less musical interest, the development of a musical thought being rarely considered.
From The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations by W. S. B. (William Smythe Babcock) Mathews
