| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Adjective | 1. Flowing as with honey; smooth; mellifluous.[Websters]
2. Being fluent, liquid, facile, voluble or eloquent. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being smooth, suave, sleek, smarmy or smooth-faced. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being sweet, sugary, saccharine, candied or honied. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being luscious or toothsome. [Eve - graph theoretic] 6. Being honeyed or nectariferous. [Eve - graph theoretic] 7. Rarely used base adjective of the adverb mellifluently.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adverb Form (mellifluently) | 1. In a mellifluent manner.[Websters]. 2. In a sweet, soft, saccharine, suave or honied manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 3. In a luscious, smooth, sleek or silken manner.[Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Virtually never used adverbial inflection of the rarely used adjective mellifluent.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. | Top | |
Date "MELLIFLUENT" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1790. (references) |
| Etymology:Mellifluent \Mel*lif"lu*ent\, adjective. [Latin expression mellifluens. See Mellifluous.]. (references) |
