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English
Etymology
From anti- + musical.
Adjective
antimusical (comparative more antimusical, superlative most antimusical)
- (music) Opposing or countering music.
2007 June 4, Alastair Macaulay, “Wake Up, Princess, the Movies Are Calling”, in New York Times:This does become monstrously antimusical in one scene: when Tchaikovsky’s music, softly depicting the sleeping palace (my favorite passage of this composer’s entire oeuvre, with its beautifully muffled oboe melody suggesting how beauty ripens in sleep like a chrysalis), is turned into an epic battle for the poor passive Prince, conducted between the wicked Carabosse, with her ghoulish minions, and the Lilac Fairy, with her elves.
- (music) Of or pertaining to antimusic.
Translations
opposing or countering music
Portuguese
Etymology
From anti- + musical.
Pronunciation
Adjective
antimusical m or f (plural antimusicais)
- (music) antimusical (opposing or countering music)