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canorous

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ca·no·rous  (k-nôrs, -nr-, knr-s)
adj.
Richly melodious; tuneful: "Edward R. Murrow's canorous broadcasts of the blitz of London" (Newsweek).

[From Latin canrus, from canor, tune, from canere, to sing; see kan- in Indo-European roots.]

ca·norous·ly adv.
ca·norous·ness n.

canorous [kəˈnɔːrəs]
adj
Rare tuneful; melodious
[from Latin canōrus, from canere to sing]
canorously  adv
canorousness  n
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Adj.1.canorous - richly melodious
melodic, melodious, musical - containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody; "the melodious song of a meadowlark"


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Sullivan added that the album's "success with the inner-city hipster cognoscenti must surely have been connected with the unabashed romanticism inherent in the songs, the way they acted as a canorous (that is, richly melodious, pleasant-sounding) balm for the bruising hypervelocity of modern living and fin-de-siecle stresses.
 
 
 
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