Mellifluous
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The sixty features of a melodic voice; the sixty mellifluous speech.
1. flexible
2. soft
3. attractive
4. delightful
5. pure
6. faultless
7. clear
8. pleasantly soothing
9. worthy of hearing
10. not harmful
11. beautiful
12. subdued
13. not coarse
14. not rough
15. completely subdued
16. beautiful to hear
17. refreshing for body
18. refreshing for mind
19. pleasing the heart
20. generating pleasure and happiness
21. completely without sadness
22. being the object of universal knowledge
23. being the object of thorough understanding
24. completely clear
25. producing pleasure
26. producing manifest pleasure
27. producing universal knowledge
28. producing thorough understanding
29. logical
30. relevant
31. free of repetition
32. possessing the strength of a lion's roar
33. producing the sound of an elephant
34. producing the sound of a cloud (thunder)
35. producing the sound of a Naga (serpent-spirit)
36. producing the sound of Gandharva (a celestial musician)
37. producing the melody of a sparrow
38. producing the melody of Brahma
39. producing the sound of a jivanjivaka bird
40. pleasant as the melodies of the lord of gods
41. producing the sound of a dundubhi drum
42. free of arrogance
43. not degraded
44. harmonious to all sounds
45. free of corrupted words
46. not incomplete
47. not crying
48. not depressed
49. extremely joyous
50. pervasive
51. perfected
52. flowing
53. elegantly connected
54. making all sounds complete
55. satisfying all senses
56. non-abusive
57. unchanging
58. unwavering
59. popular in all circles
60. possessing the best of all components
(from Tsepak Rigzin, Tibetan-English Dictionary of Buddhist Terminology)
mellifluous
Moby Thesaurus words for "mellifluous":
accordant, achingly sweet, affable, agreeable, agreeable-sounding,
ambrosial, amiable, amicable, appealing, ariose, arioso,
bittersweet, blissful, candied, canorous, cantabile, catchy,
cheerful, compatible, complaisant, congenial, cordial, desirable,
dulcet, en rapport, enjoyable, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous,
fair, fair and pleasant, felicific, felicitous, fine, fine-toned,
genial, golden, golden-tongued, golden-voiced, good, goodly,
gracious, grateful, gratifying, harmonious, heart-warming, honeyed,
honeysweet, likable, liquid, melic, melliferous, mellifluent,
mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, music-flowing, music-like,
musical, nectareous, nectarous, nice, pleasant, pleasant-sounding,
pleasing, pleasurable, pleasure-giving, pleasureful, rewarding,
rich, sacchariferous, satisfying, silver-toned, silver-tongued,
silver-voiced, silvery, singable, songful, songlike, sonorous,
sour-sweet, sugarcoated, sugared, sugarsweet, sugary, sweet,
sweet and pungent, sweet and sour, sweet as sugar, sweet-flowing,
sweet-sounding, sweetened, sweetish, syrupy, tunable, tuneful,
welcome
(from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes])
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