Musical

Quick meaning: Musical is an adjective meaning Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.

Meaning

Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.

More Meanings

1. Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.
2. Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.
3. A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.
4. (probably archaic or obsolete) A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.
5. Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.

Example Sentences

musical proportion

musical instruments

having a musical ear

The child is musical.

Word Forms

• musicall
• musicals

Synonyms for musical

Depending on context, synonyms include dulcet, sweet, mellifluous, mellisonant, melodious, honeyed.

Antonyms for musical

Common opposites include take, dissonant, unmusical, unmelodious, nonmusical.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include singing, ariose, philharmonic, songful, melodic, songlike.

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