musical
Forms
- Comparative
- more musical
- Superlative
- most musical
- Plural
- musicals
Definitions
1.Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.
2.Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.
- She had a musical voice.
3.Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.
4.Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.
- Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.
- Musical seats upon an airplane is not a game I recommend.
- “Sounds like y'all are playing musical houses. How did you convince your mama to move to Austin?”
1.A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.
- It is unthinkable for a straight play to enjoy a life span like those of the blockbuster musicals or to earn such astronomical grosses.
2.A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #2498
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Word family
Etymology
From Middle English musical
From Old French [Term?]
From Medieval Latin mūsicālis
From Latin mūsica (“music”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music + -al.