Adjective: melodic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more melodic |
| Superlative | most melodic |
Sample Sentences
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Debussy's melody is fractional, fragmentary. But at the core all his music is melodic and melody is its main motive force. [1929, Arthur Lourié, “An Inquiry into Melody”, in Modern Music, volume VII, number 1, page 10:]
Adjectives inflected like melodic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Borrowed from French mélodique. By surface analysis, melody + -ic. See: French Adjectives '
mélodique'.