English Explanatory Dictionary

musical

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.
  2. Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.
  3. Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.
  4. 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.
noun
  1. A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.
  2. A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.

Pronunciation

/ˈmju.zɪ.kəl/ en-us-musical.ogg

Word forms

musical more musical most musical musicall musicals

Etymology

From Middle English musical, from Old French [Term?], from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica (“music”) + -ālis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music + -al.

Related words

music musicality musically

Derived words

amusical antimusical biomusical dramaticomusical dramatico-musical electromusical ethnomusical extramusical immusical ludomusical minimusical multimusical musical bow musical box musical chairs musical comedy musical ear syndrome musical film musical glasses musical instrument musical interval musicalise musicalization musicalize musicalness musical notation musical saw musical sawist musical scale musical theater musical theatre musical theory musical time nonmusical philomusical premusical pseudomusical pyromusical quasimusical sociomusical theory of musical equilibration unmusical 2.5D musical dancical jukebox musical megamusical Seussical supermusical
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