Wednesday Word: Mellifluous

May 08, 2013 09:15


mellifluous |məˈlifloōəs|adjective(of a voice or words) sweet or musical; pleasant to hear: the voice was mellifluous and smooth.DERIVATIVESmellifluously adverbmellifluousness nounORIGIN late 15th cent.: from late Latin mellifluus(from mel ‘honey’ + fluere ‘to flow’ ) + -ous .

I'll be honest, I had no idea how to spell this word. Fortunately, the mac dictionary made sense of my garble of letters. I recently heard this word used on 30 Rock.
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