Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

antimusical

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: an-timu-si-cal
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Opposing or countering music.

adj

Of or pertaining to antimusic.

Example Sentences

"This does become monstrously antimusical in one scene: when Tchaikovsky’s music, softly depicting the sleeping palace (my favorite passage of this composer’s entire oeuvre, with its beautifully muffled oboe melody suggesting how beauty ripens in sleep like a chrysalis), is turned into an epic battle for the poor passive Prince, conducted between the wicked Carabosse, with her ghoulish minions, and the Lilac Fairy, with her elves."

Etymology

From anti- + musical.

Inflected Forms

more antimusical (comparative) most antimusical (superlative)

Questions

What does antimusical mean?: Opposing or countering music.
Where does antimusical come from?: From anti- + musical.

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