Wordie: Mellifluous: Comments

Comment by chicie, about 1 month ago

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:09:32 +0000

honey should be included in the definition.
this is an amazing word, almost an onomatopoeia.

Comment by yarb, 2 months ago

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 07:10:35 +0000

I am not as mellifluous as Sir John Betjeman.

- Peter Reading, Opinions of the Press, from Fiction, 1979

Comment by prasadkdr, 4 months ago

Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:07:01 +0000

Mellifluous means pleasing to the ear

Comment by frindley, 5 months ago

Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:03:15 +0000

See also grandiloquent/grandiloquence.
Mellifluous grandiloquence is something else altogether!

Comment by chesler, 6 months ago

Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:16:09 +0000

This was a favorite of the greatest orator I ever had the honor to learn from, Richard Sodikow, Speech & Debate Coach, The Bronx HS of Science. When he said it, he demonstrated just how well it flowed like honey past his lips.

Comment by bilby, 8 months ago

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:44:43 +0000

Honey doesn't flow much and creamed honey doesn't flow at all.

Comment by Ravages, 8 months ago

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 17:47:36 +0000

smooth, sweet, feminine.

describing a language?

of greek origin(?)

Comment by artistx, about 1 year ago

Thu, 19 Apr 2007 04:47:49 +0000

Doesn't it just flow! Great word

Comment by seanmeade, about 1 year ago

Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:08:56 +0000

mellifluous is such a great sounding word! ;-)

Comment by Valse, about 1 year ago

Sat, 13 Jan 2007 22:39:48 +0000

Wonderful etymology: "flowing with honey." The word can be used in that literal sense, but the "metaphorical" sense (e.g. to describe someone's voice or movement) just works really nicely.