melonious
/mɛˈloʊni.əs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Besides the regular dividends the neat and interesting job of occasionally carving a surplus sandilla is performed, and the metallic chink of the resulting proceeds in the stockholder’s pocket gives forth a highly melonious sound."
- "An epidemic of watermelons broke out in Hollywood early yesterday morning. Ten minutes after the melonious assault began the city was freckled with seeds, slippery with shattered rind and literally adrip with the heart’s blood of dozens of huge, over-ripe melons, ammunition which a large-size patch on the outskirts of town had been literally stripped to secure."
- "The Missouri melon, to put it briefly, is the most melonious of melons."
- "Only then do I begin to grow a bit drowsy beneath a rain of garden produce, flowers, green vegetables, fruits of every sort, golden oranges, melodious melons, melonious melodies, seeds without equal, marvels of harvests."
- "The Cheese. Shot the breeze. Exchanged unpleasant pleasantries. Said The Severants were right. Hand-to-God, with a knowing nod. Of his giant pumpkinish. Melonious head. His bum tickler. Had him getting sicker."
- "Only occasionally, jacketless in her customary brown or gray silk blouse and ramrod straight in her typing chair, did she reveal superb melonious breasts cantilevered over a trim waist."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /mɛˈloʊni.əs/
- British English: /mɛˈləʊni.əs/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more melonious (comparative)
most melonious (superlative)