Antonyms for melody

Grammar : Noun

Spell : mel-uh-dee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈmɛl ə di

Definition of melody

Origin : late 13c., from Old French melodie "music, song, tune" (12c.), from Late Latin melodia, from Greek meloidia "a singing, a chanting, choral song, a tune for lyric poetry," from melos "song, part of song" (see melisma) + oide "song, ode" (see ode).

noun harmony, tune

Example sentences :

Their outburst of melody is like a brook let loose from wintry chains.
Extract from : « Buds and Bird Voices (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life, that would fain be a melody, seems here almost a malady.
Extract from : « Ballads of a Bohemian » by Robert W. Service

Gracie asked, running off the final notes in a tinkle of melody.
Extract from : « Ester Ried Yet Speaking » by Isabella Alden

If these matters must be divided, give me the melody, and whoever else will, may take the noise.
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 2, April 9, 1870 » by Various

But four parts are altogether necessary to the perfection of melody.
Extract from : « The Last of the Mohicans » by James Fenimore Cooper

All this time, the monster slept on, for the girl kept on crooning her melody.
Extract from : « Welsh Fairy Tales » by William Elliott Griffis

It was as if she marched to the melody of the joy in her heart.
Extract from : « Four Girls and a Compact » by Annie Hamilton Donnell

The only melody which pleased me was that of the mournful and touching kind.
Extract from : « Beaux and Belles of England » by Mary Robinson

Now every melody is right when it has suitable harmony and rhythm, and wrong when unsuitable.
Extract from : « Laws » by Plato

Let us now consider the beauty of figure, melody, song, and dance.
Extract from : « Laws » by Plato

Synonyms for melody

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