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Meanings of unmelodic in English

Lacking melody.

Synonyms
Examples for "unmusical"
Examples for "unmusical"
1
The green-room was made unmusical with contentions carried out in polite Billingsgate.
The Great German Composers
2
It is a great pity that the English nation is so unmusical.
In a German Pension
3
Mrs. Mutimer smiled in a grim way, then laughed- amostunmusical laugh.
Demos
4
While he performed it, his somewhat unmusical voice trembled with inward emotion.
Garman and Worse: A Norwegian Novel
5
Indeed, we can get intense emotion from sound which is entirely unmusical.
The Psychology of Beauty
1
The bell that clears the flying stage became a loud unmelodious clanging.
The sleeper awakes
2
The words came quick and decisive in a not unmelodious voice.
The Chief Legatee
3
The man at the piano still thrashed out his unmelodious chords.
The Pawns Count
4
But his voice sounded harsh and unmelodious, and it made the very ship tremble.
Finnish Legends for English Children
5
Buck Daniels stared, blinked, and then burst into unmelodious laughter.
The Night Horseman
Usage of unmelodic in English
1
Five-cylinder engines are unmelodic, and the Viper has two very loud ones.
BBC
2
Its forced rhymes come off like doggerel much of the time, prosaic and unmelodic.
Reuters
3
It was also because the vibration of the instrument's strings was instantly accompanied by another noise, equally unmelodic.
The thirteenth tale: a novel
Frequent collocations
Unmelodic through the time