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unmelodious

unmelodious adjective: not melodious.

Adjective

unmelodious (comparative more unmelodious, superlative most unmelodious)

  1. Not melodious.
    • Prussian Trenck […] jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book III (The Girondins), page 184
    • Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours: a gift of story and song—soft, stirring melody in an ill–harmonized and unmelodious land; the gift of sweat and brawn to beat back the wilderness, conquer the soil, and lay the foundations of this vast economic empire two hundred...1903, W. E. B. DuBois, chapter 14, in The Souls of Black Folk
    Synonyms:
    unmelodic

Synonyms of unmelodious

Forms of unmelodious

comparativemore unmelodious
superlativemost unmelodious

Origin of unmelodious

From un- + melodious.

Words formed from unmelodious

Questions about unmelodious

What does unmelodious mean?
Unmelodious means not melodious.
What part of speech is unmelodious?
Unmelodious is an adjective.

Words near unmelodious in the dictionary

  1. unmellow
  2. unmellowed
  3. unmellowing
  4. unmelodic
  5. unmelodically
  6. unmelodious
  7. unmelodiously
  8. unmelodiousness
  9. unmelodized
  10. unmelodramatic
  11. unmelodramatically

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