musical

noun

A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.

(probably archaic or obsolete) A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.

adjective

Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.

Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.

Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.

Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.

Roots

mousamus- · Greek · the Muses

Synonyms for musical

melodicadj melodiousadj burletta cantabileadj singableadj philharmonicn symphonicadj tunefuladj operettan songfuladj

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