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Someone who has an abrasive manner is unkind and rude, wearing away at you in an irritating fashion.
An acrid smell or taste is strong, unpleasant, and stings your nose or throat.
If you are amenable to doing something, you willingly accept it without arguing.
Bedlam is a situation with a great deal of noise and confusion.
Someone who has a bilious personality is highly irritable and bad-tempered.
Someone who has a bristling personality is easily offended, annoyed, or angered.
A cacophony is a loud and unpleasant mixture of sounds.
Two people concordant with each other are in agreement or harmony.
If you describe something, especially food and drink, as delectable, you mean that it is very pleasant, tasty, or attractive.
A situation or thing that is discordant does not fit in with other things; therefore, it is disagreeable, strange, or unpleasant.
Dissonance is an unpleasant situation of opposition in which ideas or actions are not in agreement or harmony; dissonance also refers to a harsh combination of sounds.
Euphony is a pleasing sound in speech or music.
If you are experiencing felicity about something, you are very happy about it.
A mellifluous voice or piece of music is gentle and pleasant to listen to.
Pandemonium is a very noisy and uncontrolled situation, especially one that is caused by a lot of angry or excited people.
A raucous sound is unpleasantly loud, harsh, and noisy.
Repugnance is a strong feeling of dislike for something or someone you find horrible and offensive.
A sonorous sound is pleasantly full, strong, and rich.
A tumultuous event or period of time is filled with great excitement, confusion, or violence; a tumultuous reaction to something is likewise very loud and noisy because people are happy and excited.
Doing something in unison is doing it all together at one time.
Adj.
dulcet
DUHL-sit
Context
As Miriam sat still for the portrait, the dulcet, soothing sound of the painter’s brush sweeping across the canvas calmed her senses. She found herself relaxed by the dulcet, rhythmic, and pleasant sounds that the brush made as it spread color onto the sketched image of her face. Likewise, the artist hummed quietly as he worked to capture her likeness, pleasing Miriam with his dulcet, sweet, and agreeable voice.
Quiz:Try again!
When Portia in Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” says that “dulcet sounds” do “creep into the dreaming bridegroom’s ear,” what most likely will the bridegroom hear?
Nervous words that mirror his own pre-marital apprehensions.
DullSet Not Dulcet A null set of candy is a dullset, but a fullset of candy is dulcet, sugary and sweet-sounding!
Examples
[He] whipped out his trombone and started to sweetly serenade his herd with a cover of Lorde’s hit “Royals.” As the dulcet strains of his trombone take on the chart-topping tune echoed across the Kansas plains, the cows came home to hear the concert.
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TIME
James Blake has long been one of our favorite live performers, bringing his gentle, dulcet tenor and aching emotion to each and every concert.
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USA Today
[Diana] Ross—whose dulcet coo and sigh so wonderfully captured the song’s bittersweet mix of heartache and hopefulness—deserved every iota of stardom Gordy had plotted for her.
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The Guardian
Downstairs, where the dulcet sounds of a Steinway player piano greet employees in the morning, a valet will wash your car and change the oil.
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CNN
A dulcet sound is “little” (that is, soft) and “sweet.”
Word Theater
Simon and Garfunkel A dulcet song.
The panel shows a small video clip of either the word in actual use or a scene that represents the meaning of a word. This not only breaks up the monotony of studying words but also provides another avenue to strengthen word meaning. Enjoy!
