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mellifluous |
(adj): pleasing to the ear
(adj): vs. unmelodious), melodic, musical -- (containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody
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(smellifluous: Pleasing to the nose?)
It is indeed.
I always start singing the truffula song from The Lorax. However the hell you spell truffula...
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.
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.
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.
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?
Photogenic?
Eye candy?
Is there a visual equivalent to this word? I'd love to know it.
honey should be included in the definition.
this is an amazing word, almost an onomatopoeia.
I am not as mellifluous as Sir John Betjeman.
- Peter Reading, Opinions of the Press, from Fiction, 1979
Mellifluous means pleasing to the ear
See also grandiloquent/grandiloquence.
Mellifluous grandiloquence is something else altogether!
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.
Honey doesn't flow much and creamed honey doesn't flow at all.
smooth, sweet, feminine.
describing a language?
of greek origin(?)
Doesn't it just flow! Great word
mellifluous is such a great sounding word! ;-)
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.