unmelodious

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ melodious.

Adjective

unmelodious (comparative more unmelodious, superlative most unmelodious)

  1. Not melodious.
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History , volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
      Prussian Trenck [] jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
      Watt listened for a time, for the voice was far from unmelodious.

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