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单词 euphonious
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Definition of euphonious in English:

euphonious

adjective juːˈfəʊnɪəsjuˈfoʊniəs
  • (of sound, especially speech) pleasing to the ear.

    a stream of fine, euphonious phrases
    Example sentencesExamples
    • My choice, because it is clear, euphonious, and uncontaminated by other associations, is psychedelic, mind-manifesting.
    • Soon the tranquil surroundings are filled with an euphonious rendition of ‘Aye mere watan ke logon’.
    • They sat in the euphonious forest, listening to the sounds of the birds and insects.
    • It was euphonious and easy to sing and to our young ears sounded good.
    • There's also a call for ‘bright rights,’ a euphonious phrase if ever there was one.
    • Unfortunately, this euphonious name recalls that of the heretic Pelagius, who thanks to Augustine's attack on him gave his name to an abiding view of how Christians achieve salvation.
    • The apostate failed, and the once vibrant gods of Greece degenerated until they became mere rhetorical flourishes that permitted learned poets, like Milton, to ornament his verse with their euphonious names.
    • The natural harmony between subject and verb is usually euphonious.
    • Another time I interrupted a marketing meeting to argue with the editor in chief about whether ‘ineluctable’ or ‘deliquescence’ was the more euphonious.
    • If I lived in Burkina Faso (in the city with the most euphonious name, Ouagadougou), I'd be complaining about the Ouagadougouns.
    • But, once the government takes over from the free market as musical director - and certainly after it appoints the central bank to conduct the orchestra - things are never quite so euphonious.
    • He said the word meant ‘mind manifesting’ and called it ‘clear, euphonious and uncontaminated by other associations.’
    • To the scientific mind, a euphonious musical piece that calms the mind and soul is as aesthetically beautiful as a complex mathematical formula.
    • It's not clear how his ‘twenty million’, euphonious though it is, serves that end.
    • It would be just another speech, just another collection of euphonious platitudes - if it weren't for the sword we've slowly unsheathed over the last six months.
    • There is always a euphonious tone when her name is said, as if honey was rolling off the tips of their tongues.
    • They were baffled when I refused to change quoted words to make them more suspenseful, euphonious or, with the puritanism of Americans, less coarse.
    • Everyone who's ever read one of my reviews knows, however, that there's nearly always something cheerful to say (about, say, a book's cover design, or an actor's euphonious name), so that should be incentive enough.
    • The phrase itself is both alliterative and euphonious, and it's certainly not a random adjective-noun combination like we've become used to with band names; furnaces have flames in them, and thus they are fiery.
    • I'm sure that the actual Chinese name for it is less amusingly euphonious, but there you go.
    Synonyms
    pleasant-sounding, sweet-sounding, mellow, mellifluous, dulcet, sweet, honeyed, lyrical, silvery, silver-toned, golden, bell-like, rhythmical, lilting, pleasant, agreeable, soothing
    harmonious, melodious, melodic, tuneful, musical, symphonious
    informal easy on the ear
    rare mellifluent, canorous

Derivatives

  • euphoniously

  • adverb
    • The Hoopoe is euphoniously named for its call.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some Uzbek soups are euphoniously called shurpa, and a prominent range of main dishes there go under the name plov.
      • The long-flowing lines smile euphoniously, without generating harsh inner tensions, and evoking a serenity appropriate to G major's blessedness.
      • Another hot new technique for field biologists is the euphoniously named science of molecular scatology.
      • Snarled hanks of colored line nest devotedly against one another and suspend euphoniously from a planar filigree of black over white.

Rhymes

acrimonious, antimonious, ceremonious, erroneous, felonious, harmonious, parsimonious, Petronius, sanctimonious, Suetonius
 
 

Definition of euphonious in US English:

euphonious

adjectiveyo͞oˈfōnēəsjuˈfoʊniəs
  • (of sound, especially speech) pleasing to the ear.

    this successful candidate delivers a stream of fine, euphonious phrases
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It was euphonious and easy to sing and to our young ears sounded good.
    • But, once the government takes over from the free market as musical director - and certainly after it appoints the central bank to conduct the orchestra - things are never quite so euphonious.
    • The natural harmony between subject and verb is usually euphonious.
    • He said the word meant ‘mind manifesting’ and called it ‘clear, euphonious and uncontaminated by other associations.’
    • There's also a call for ‘bright rights,’ a euphonious phrase if ever there was one.
    • They sat in the euphonious forest, listening to the sounds of the birds and insects.
    • It would be just another speech, just another collection of euphonious platitudes - if it weren't for the sword we've slowly unsheathed over the last six months.
    • If I lived in Burkina Faso (in the city with the most euphonious name, Ouagadougou), I'd be complaining about the Ouagadougouns.
    • The phrase itself is both alliterative and euphonious, and it's certainly not a random adjective-noun combination like we've become used to with band names; furnaces have flames in them, and thus they are fiery.
    • To the scientific mind, a euphonious musical piece that calms the mind and soul is as aesthetically beautiful as a complex mathematical formula.
    • I'm sure that the actual Chinese name for it is less amusingly euphonious, but there you go.
    • Another time I interrupted a marketing meeting to argue with the editor in chief about whether ‘ineluctable’ or ‘deliquescence’ was the more euphonious.
    • They were baffled when I refused to change quoted words to make them more suspenseful, euphonious or, with the puritanism of Americans, less coarse.
    • It's not clear how his ‘twenty million’, euphonious though it is, serves that end.
    • The apostate failed, and the once vibrant gods of Greece degenerated until they became mere rhetorical flourishes that permitted learned poets, like Milton, to ornament his verse with their euphonious names.
    • Unfortunately, this euphonious name recalls that of the heretic Pelagius, who thanks to Augustine's attack on him gave his name to an abiding view of how Christians achieve salvation.
    • Soon the tranquil surroundings are filled with an euphonious rendition of ‘Aye mere watan ke logon’.
    • There is always a euphonious tone when her name is said, as if honey was rolling off the tips of their tongues.
    • Everyone who's ever read one of my reviews knows, however, that there's nearly always something cheerful to say (about, say, a book's cover design, or an actor's euphonious name), so that should be incentive enough.
    • My choice, because it is clear, euphonious, and uncontaminated by other associations, is psychedelic, mind-manifesting.
    Synonyms
    pleasant-sounding, sweet-sounding, mellow, mellifluous, dulcet, sweet, honeyed, lyrical, silvery, silver-toned, golden, bell-like, rhythmical, lilting, pleasant, agreeable, soothing
 
 
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