Sweet and smooth-flowing, like honey poured from a jar. Most often describes voices, music, or words that flow with liquid sweetness and grace.
Latin mel (honey) plus fluere (to flow) created this golden word. Roman poets needed a way to describe voices that poured like liquid sweetness, speeches that flowed like amber nectar. The word itself demonstrates its meaning — say it slowly: mel-LIF-lu-ous. Even the syllables flow like honey from the tongue.
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