unmelodious

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ melodious.

Adjective

unmelodious (comparative more unmelodious, superlative most unmelodious)

  1. Not melodious.
    • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book III (The Girondins), page 184:
      Prussian Trenck […] jargons and jangles in an unmelodious manner.
    • 1903, W. E. B. DuBois, chapter 14, in The Souls of Black Folk‎[1]:
      Here we have brought our three gifts and mingled them with yours: a gift of story and song—soft, stirring melody in an ill–harmonized and unmelodious land; the gift of sweat and brawn to beat back the wilderness, conquer the soil, and lay the foundations of this vast economic empire two hundred years earlier than your weak hands could have done it; the third, a gift of the Spirit.
    • 1953, Samuel Beckett, chapter IV, in Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC, page 216:
      Watt listened for a time, for the voice was far from unmelodious.

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