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Definition of unmelodious in English: unmelodiousadjective ʌnmɪˈləʊdɪəs Not melodious; discordant. 音调不悦耳的；刺耳的 an unmelodious chorus of horns 刺耳的喇叭声。 Example sentencesExamples - Unfortunately, the silence was broken by the most unmelodious voice in history.
- For the chorus, as throughout, she's joined by the unmelodious voices of the revellers.
- It made me realise why advertising tunelets are called ‘jingles,’ because it is jingling like a cluster of unmelodious bells in my brain.
- Not to mention the unmelodious and meaningless songs they parrot.
- ‘As soon as the sled is brought out,’ wrote Bannister in the Alaska Geographic Quarterly, ‘the dogs gather round and, fairly dancing with excitement, raise their voices in about a dozen unmelodious strains.’
- Then they tell me: ‘But when we go to the Shanghai Concert Hall, we hear mostly unmelodious noise which turns us off completely.’
Synonyms grating, jarring, grinding, rasping, raspy, strident, raucous, brassy, jangling, metallic, ear-piercing, discordant, dissonant, disagreeable, unharmonious, cacophonous
Derivativesadverb And perhaps it's just as well he hasn't tried to balance words and music, as on the rare occasion when he does venture into the mechanics of Dylan's music his prose clanks unmelodiously. Example sentencesExamples - ‘Free jazz’ - unstructured, often atonal and unmelodiously improvised - has done a disservice to the fan base.
- She muttered the title with a German accent and, as she did so, heard Greta herself come in, whistling unmelodiously between her teeth.
- I washed it down with two bottles of orange pop, like those I had seen tied to the end of strings, clinking unmelodiously as they bounced on the sides of donkeys returning from markets in the valley.
- He lolled at his ease, humming, not unmelodiously, snatches of a rude song, and fingering a pack of cards.
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