as in melodic
having a pleasantly flowing quality suggestive of music
a rich, mellifluous voice that gets her a lot of work in radio and TV commercials
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Recent Examples of mellifluous
Andrews' nuanced design of P.L. Travers' creation is an astute, mellifluous, and delightfully intimidating creature of talent and propriety — and as the world would realize, so, too, was Andrews.
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
If anything, a Grande song is going to sound mellifluous, no matter its message.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
The mellifluous tenor that narrated Dodgers games for generations of Spanish-language listeners hasn’t weakened.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2025
As his deep, mellifluous voice echoed around the concrete walls, the audience—if videos of the event are anything to go by—was left entirely bewitched.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2025
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Ew Staff, EW.com, 2 Mar. 2025
If anything, a Grande song is going to sound mellifluous, no matter its message.
—Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 28 Mar. 2025
The mellifluous tenor that narrated Dodgers games for generations of Spanish-language listeners hasn’t weakened.
—Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2025
As his deep, mellifluous voice echoed around the concrete walls, the audience—if videos of the event are anything to go by—was left entirely bewitched.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for mellifluous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mellifluous
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Macy, who plays Arn Peeples, an explosives expert, finds lyrical beauty in an early 20th century America where the outside world is fast closing in on their traditional, pastoral way of life.—
Etan Vlessing,
HollywoodReporter,
24 July 2025
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Even the title phrase, which Francis immediately fell for, falls pretty squarely in line with classic country wordplay and lyrical imagery.—
Andrew Unterberger,
Billboard,
21 July 2025
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One More World is a sustained experiment in constructing a coherent personal register from grand forms – technical, sacrificial, mythological, memorial – and its accomplishment involves the translation of High Modernism into a lyric mode.—
Matthew Carey Salyer,
Forbes.com,
17 July 2025
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Filled with fierce lyric tenderness and clear-eyed commitment to revolutionary aesthetic, Terror Counter devoted to the redemption of the self from a world ready to usurp this resistance.—
Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
24 June 2025
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“Mellifluous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mellifluous. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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