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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Mellifluous
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 10:31:55 -0500 (EST)
Mellifluous http://www.alansondheim.org/theatersong.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/theateruke2.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/theatersong.mp4 http://www.alansondheim.org/theateruke3.mp4 The sixty features of a melodic voice; the sixty mellifluous speech. 1. flexible 2. soft 3. attractive 4. delightful 5. pure 6. faultless 7. clear 8. pleasantly soothing 9. worthy of hearing 10. not harmful 11. beautiful 12. subdued 13. not coarse 14. not rough 15. completely subdued 16. beautiful to hear 17. refreshing for body 18. refreshing for mind 19. pleasing the heart 20. generating pleasure and happiness 21. completely without sadness 22. being the object of universal knowledge 23. being the object of thorough understanding 24. completely clear 25. producing pleasure 26. producing manifest pleasure 27. producing universal knowledge 28. producing thorough understanding 29. logical 30. relevant 31. free of repetition 32. possessing the strength of a lion's roar 33. producing the sound of an elephant 34. producing the sound of a cloud (thunder) 35. producing the sound of a Naga (serpent-spirit) 36. producing the sound of Gandharva (a celestial musician) 37. producing the melody of a sparrow 38. producing the melody of Brahma 39. producing the sound of a jivanjivaka bird 40. pleasant as the melodies of the lord of gods 41. producing the sound of a dundubhi drum 42. free of arrogance 43. not degraded 44. harmonious to all sounds 45. free of corrupted words 46. not incomplete 47. not crying 48. not depressed 49. extremely joyous 50. pervasive 51. perfected 52. flowing 53. elegantly connected 54. making all sounds complete 55. satisfying all senses 56. non-abusive 57. unchanging 58. unwavering 59. popular in all circles 60. possessing the best of all components (from Tsepak Rigzin, Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Terminology) mellifluous Moby Thesaurus words for "mellifluous": accordant, achingly sweet, affable, agreeable, agreeable-sounding, ambrosial, amiable, amicable, appealing, ariose, arioso, bittersweet, blissful, candied, canorous, cantabile, catchy, cheerful, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, desirable, dulcet, en rapport, enjoyable, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, fair, fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, fine-toned, genial, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, good, goodly, gracious, grateful, gratifying, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed, honeysweet, likable, liquid, melic, melliferous, mellifluent, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, music-flowing, music-like, musical, nectareous, nectarous, nice, pleasant, pleasant-sounding, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, rewarding, rich, sacchariferous, satisfying, silver-toned, silver-tongued, silver-voiced, silvery, singable, songful, songlike, sonorous, sour-sweet, sugarcoated, sugared, sugarsweet, sugary, sweet, sweet and pungent, sweet and sour, sweet as sugar, sweet-flowing, sweet-sounding, sweetened, sweetish, syrupy, tunable, tuneful, welcome (from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes])