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antimusical

antimusical adjective: opposing or countering music.

Adjective

antimusical (comparative more antimusical, superlative most antimusical)

  1. Opposing or countering music.
    • This does become monstrously antimusical in one scene: when Tchaikovsky’s music, softly depicting the sleeping palace (my favorite passage of this composer’s entire oeuvre, with its beautifully muffled oboe melody suggesting how beauty ripens in sleep like a chrysalis), is turned into an epic...2007 June 4, Alastair Macaulay, “Wake Up, Princess, the Movies Are Calling”, in New York Times
  2. Of or pertaining to antimusic.

Forms of antimusical

comparativemore antimusical
superlativemost antimusical

Origin of antimusical

From anti- + musical.

Questions about antimusical

What does antimusical mean?
Antimusical means opposing or countering music.
What part of speech is antimusical?
Antimusical is an adjective.

Words near antimusical in the dictionary

  1. antimurine
  2. antimuscarinic
  3. antimuscarinics
  4. antimuseum
  5. antimusic
  6. antimusical
  7. antimusics
  8. antimuslim
  9. antimuslimism
  10. antimutagen
  11. antimutagenesis

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