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mellifluous

adj
/məˈlɪflu.əs/US

Etymology

From Latin mellifluus (“flowing like honey”), from mel (“honey”) + fluō (“flow”). Compare superfluous and fluid, from same root, and with dulcet (“sweet speech”), alternative Latinate term with a similar meaning.

  1. borrowed from mellifluus

Definitions

  1. Flowing like honey.

    • Though in heaven the trees / Of life ambrosial fruitage bear, and vines / Yield nectar; though from off the boughs each morn / VVe brush mellifluous devvs, and find the ground / Cover'd vvith pearly grain[…]

  2. Sweet, smooth and musical

    Sweet, smooth and musical; pleasant to hear (generally used of a person's voice, tone or writing style).

    • […] Socrates […] VVisest of men; from vvhose mouth issued forth / Mellifluous streams that vvater'd all the schools / Of Academicks old and nevv […]
    • Join'd to Theſe [birds], / Thouſands beſide, thick as the covering Leaves / VVhich ſpeck them o'er, their Modulations mix / Mellifluous.

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Derived

mellifluously, mellifluousness, unmellifluous

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA