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.
I think this might be the most beautiful word in the English language! Say it slowly: mel-LIF-lu-ous. Even the SOUND of it flows like honey! The Romans literally built this word from honey and flowing water — can you imagine a more perfect combination? Every time you hear a voice that makes you close your eyes and just listen, that's mellifluous. It's the word for voices that feel like silk and sound like music and flow like golden rivers.
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