melodious
Use the adjective melodious to describe something that sounds like music, like a babbling brook or a little boy's soft humming.
Anything that makes a pleasant, tuneful sound can be called melodious, which makes sense when you spot the word melody in melodious. Both have a root in common, the Greek word meloidia, which means "singing, or a tune for lyric poetry." It, in turn, comes from melos, or "song."
Definitions of melodious
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having a musical sound; especially a pleasing tunesynonyms: tuneful
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containing or constituting or characterized by pleasing melody“the melodious song of a meadowlark”lyricalsuitable for or suggestive of singingantonyms:unmelodiouslacking melody
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