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Today's Word "euphonious"

Pleasing or sweet in sound on

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euphonious - \yoo-FOH-nee-uhs\ (adjective) - Pleasing or sweet in sound; smooth-sounding.

"Pink isn't euphonious. I had a girlfriend once who called me Rosy. That wasn't good either." -- Antonia Susan Byatt, 'Still Life'

 

Euphonious comes from Greek euphonos, "sweet-voiced," from eu-, "well" (hence "sweetly") + phonos, from phone, "voice, sound." The noun form is euphony.


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