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US
/ˈmjuzɪkəɫ/
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[ UK /mjˈuːzɪkəl/ ]
[ UK /mjˈuːzɪkəl/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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talented in or devoted to music
comes from a very musical family -
characterized by or capable of producing music
musical instruments
a musical evening -
containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody
the melodious song of a meadowlark -
characteristic of or resembling or accompanied by music
a musical comedy
a musical speaking voice
NOUN
- a play or film whose action and dialogue is interspersed with singing and dancing
How To Use musical In A Sentence
- Of all types of commercially based American music, jazz is the one that has most consistently fostered musical artistry on a high level.
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- I dreamt last night that I went out for a drink with biscuitware and that halfway through the night he suddenly jumped up from his seat to perform an all-singing all-dancing musical number, accompanied by a well-rehearsed large chorus all in spangly costume. The One That's Still Making Me Chuckle
- The feeling of movement - discussed as kinaesthesia - is married to a musical sequence, by which the shapes seem to converse in a kind of inner-skull environment.
- The new musical wowed them on Broadway.
- My musical tastes don't overlap with my brother's at all.
- Rounds are no longer written in modern musical styles, and remain untouched by developments in chromatic harmony, atonality, jazz idioms, serial structures and folk modes.
- In many cases, well-qualified songs from musicals, operettas, vaudeville, and revues, as well as variety shows, music hall, and cafe concert, were recruited for use in cabarets.
- What do you think to this new musical group?
- A Serious Man" draw from their writer-directors 'personal histories, while "Nine" reimagines Fellini's semiautobiographically impressionistic "8 as a musical. Variety.com