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.

   • 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.

Synonyms

• unmelodic

Derived terms

• unmelodiously
• unmelodiousness