mellifluous

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Dont fall in love with the gentle trilling of your mellifluous commands and blocks.

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pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello"

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adjective

pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mellifluous.

adjective

pleasing to the ear; "the dulcet tones of the cello"

See also: dulcet, honeyed, mellisonant, sweet

Example sentences

Dont fall in love with the gentle trilling of your mellifluous commands and blocks.

What does mellifluous mean, the dictionary says 'sweet or smooth.

We ought to pause before giving in to its mellifluous rhetoric.

But my english alarm doesnt go off everytime a word like 'mellifluous' isn't used.

Seems like a mellifluous but semantically empty use of the word.

I use ass for the literal ass, arse for the metaphorical - it's more mellifluous to me.

The entire thing is just so incredibly mellifluous.

But fortunately a mellifluous Chinese vocalist showed up and sang a song.

Yet, listen to someone from Aberdeenshire or parts of Wales and English becomes quite mellifluous.

I'm not sure what's included in "be impeccable with your word" that isn't also included in the more mellifluous "don't lie".

The author is incredible because his prose are mellifluous regardless and across genre - sci-fi, drama, horror, and historical fiction are all in Dan Simmons' corpus of work.

One does bog-standard 3-chord power-pop-punk with standard 'rebellious' studded-crap accouterments, the other does mellifluous afro-pop in menswear from a Wes Anderson character's closet.