Wordie: Mellifluous: Comments

Comment by etaoinsrdlu, 9 months ago

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:39:45 +0000

(smellifluous: Pleasing to the nose?)

Comment by chained_bear, 11 months ago

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:22:10 +0000

It is indeed.

I always start singing the truffula song from The Lorax. However the hell you spell truffula...

Comment by andreatheawesome, 11 months ago

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:18:24 +0000

I always imagine the visual image of the word mellifluous to be a soft brown/chocolate wavy line, flowing genltly and quietly in/on a cream colored space.
Mellifluous is a mellifluous word.

Comment by savingRACE, 11 months ago

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 05:34:25 +0000

mellifluous- i first became familiar with this word while reading june jordan. she used it eloquently, with great image and soul. she described a biblical land overflowing with milk and honey. the word is certainly a graceful and refreshing throwback to a chimerical land laced with sweet leche y miel.

Comment by nlaroche, about 1 year ago

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:51:58 +0000

Similar in pattern, yes, I think is what I meant to imply by my question... I love the beauty of mellifluous and "picturesque" just doesn't compare. Perhaps I'm still on a hunt.

Comment by mollusque, about 1 year ago

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:32:49 +0000

Similar in pattern of derivation? Probably not. Similar in meaning, yes, but finding a word that means only "pleasing to the eye" and hasn't been broadened to include other senses (in both senses) is tough.

How about beauteous or picturesque?

Comment by VanishedOne, about 1 year ago

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:43:36 +0000

Photogenic?

Comment by gangerh, about 1 year ago

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:32:21 +0000

Eye candy?

Comment by nlaroche, about 1 year ago

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:31:46 +0000

Is there a visual equivalent to this word? I'd love to know it.

Comment by chicie, about 1 year 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, about 1 year 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, about 1 year ago

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

Mellifluous means pleasing to the ear

Comment by frindley, about 1 year ago

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

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

Comment by chesler, about 1 year 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, about 1 year 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, about 1 year ago

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

smooth, sweet, feminine.

describing a language?

of greek origin(?)

Comment by artistx, over 2 years ago

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

Doesn't it just flow! Great word

Comment by seanmeade, over 2 years ago

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

mellifluous is such a great sounding word! ;-)

Comment by Valse, over 2 years 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.