MUSICAL • DICCIONARIO INGLES.COM • Definition of Musical

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/mjˈuzɪkəl/ Listen

Musical

adjective

Characterized by or capable of producing music. "Musical instruments"

Talented in or devoted to music.

Characteristic of or resembling or accompanied by music. "A musical comedy"

Containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody. Synonyms: melodic, melodious.

noun

A play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing. Synonyms: musical comedy, musical theater.

See more definitions of Musical...

See images of 'Musical'

Antonyms of 'Musical'

Etymology of 'Musical'

Related searches:

musical accompaniment

musical instrument digital interface

musical time signature

Doctor of Musical Arts

electronic musical instrument

musicality

musicalness

Share |

"Musical" Quotes from Famous Books

... city—for the step was by no means the result of his own independent and unaided enterprise. Such matters were not done in that way in the good old times in the smaller cities of Italy. The matter had been much debated among the leading patrons of the musical drama in the little town. The chances of success had been canvassed. The financial question had been considered. Certain sacrifices had been determined on. And it had been settled what terms the impresario should be empowered ...

— A Siren • Thomas Adolphus Trollope

... presently, made by a black-haired Brother who sat in the corner by the piano and bore a marked resemblance to Bruder Schliemann, the musical director of thirty years ago. Harris exchanged bows with him when he took the cup from his white hands, which he noticed were like the hands of a woman. He lit a cigar, offered to him by his neighbour, with whom he was chatting delightfully, and who, in the glare of the lighted match, reminded him ...

— Three More John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood

... heard, somewhere in the air about us, an extraordinarily musical hum-like a bee, but not just one note. This hum rose and fell, up and down—almost ...

— The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle • Hugh Lofting

... been ill, but I have suffered horribly in many ways," answered Alexander, in his smooth, musical voice. ...

— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford

... little corpulent, as it was fitting, wearing a gold pince-nez instead of old-fashioned spectacles, active, gallant, and joyous, he passed in Vernon for an artist. He thrummed on the piano and played on the violin, and gave musical evenings where interpretations were given ...

— The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. • Guy de Maupassant

More quotes...