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dulcet

UK/ˈdʌl.sɪt/

dulcet adjective: sweet, especially when describing voice or tones; melodious.

Adjective

dulcet

  1. Sweet, especially when describing voice or tones; melodious.
    • Her name was Michaela, but the men called her filthy things in dulcet, ingratiating voices, and she giggled with childish joy because she understood no English and thought they were flattering her and making harmless jokes.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 433
    • Matthew "MattKC" Wong (actor) (2024), 6s from the start, in I ported THOUSANDS of apps to Windows 95: “Ah, yes, the dulcet tones of Windows 95.”
  2. Generally pleasing; agreeable.
    Synonyms:
    agreeable, soothing
  3. (archaic) Sweet to the taste.
    • […]for drink the Grape / She crushes, inoffensive must, and meads / From many a berry, and from sweet kernels prest / She tempers dulcet creams[…]1667, John Milton, “Book V”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
    Synonyms:
    sugary, sweet

dulcet meaning in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada

dulcet in Tamil

செவிக்கினிய

dulcet in Telugu

sweet (voice, tone), melodious
శ్రావ్యమైన śrāvyamaina

dulcet in Malayalam

mellow, sweet, soothing
കർണ്ണാനന്ദകരമായ, മനസ്സിനു ഇമ്പമേകുന്ന, സുസ്വരമായ, ശ്രുതിമധുരമായ, മാധുര്യമുള്ള, മധുരസ്വരമായ

dulcet in Kannada

ಸಿಹಿಯಾದ, ಇಂಪಾದ
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dulcet in Arabic
عَذْب ʕaḏb

Synonyms of dulcet

All synonyms of dulcet

Origin of dulcet

From Middle English doucet, from Old French doucet, from dulz, dulce (“sweet, pleasant”) + diminutive -et, from Latin dulcis (“sweet, pleasant”). Cognate with Spanish dulce, French doux, Italian dolce, Portuguese doce, and Romanian dulce. Doublet of dolcetto and doucet.

Words formed from dulcet

Questions about dulcet

What does dulcet mean?
Dulcet means sweet, especially when describing voice or tones; melodious.
What is dulcet in Tamil?
Dulcet in Tamil is செவிக்கினிய. See Dulcet meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is dulcet?
Dulcet is an adjective.
How do you pronounce dulcet?
Dulcet is pronounced /ˈdʌl.sɪt/ (UK).

Words near dulcet in the dictionary

  1. dulced
  2. dulcely
  3. dulceness
  4. dulceous
  5. dulces
  6. dulcet
  7. dulcetly
  8. Dulcești
  9. dulcian
  10. dulciana
  11. dulcianas

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dulcet (page history and authors); dulcet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); dulcet (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); dulcet (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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