Euphonious

Quick meaning: Euphonious is an adjective meaning Of sounds, especially speech: demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding.

Meaning

Of sounds, especially speech: demonstrating or possessing euphony; agreeable to the ear; pleasant-sounding.

Example Sentences

Before I ſet forward on my travels, I choſe to change my name from Collier to Coglioni or Collioni, as more euphonious; […]

After casting about for some time for a name which should be worthy of her, he decided in favour of Sophronia Sphynx, as being euphonious and genteel, and furthermore indicative of mystery.

We think it difficult to copy more successfully a model so curiously polished as the Botanic Garden; to assemble ideas more luxuriously elegant; to annex epithets more unexpectedly apposite: or to harmonize couplets more imitative and euphonious.

"My name is Catmur." / "A bad name, a name I don't like at all." / "Why?" / "Oh, because it has a bad sound. It isn't a bit euphonious, and is no excuse in the world for your kicking up such a row, you know. That row was not euphonious either, you know. There's nothing euphonious about you. What do you want? Why don't you go away?"

Synonyms for euphonious

Depending on context, synonyms include ariose, birdsweet, concentual, dulcet, euphonic, euphonical.

Antonyms for euphonious

Common opposites include cacophonous, noneuphonious, uneuphonious, absonant, cacophonical, cacophonious.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include euphonous, soft, golden, silvern, silvery, euphonical.

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