Kate Forsyth

As an adult, I have often been deep in serious conversation with someone I've highly respected and seen them roll an eye as my mouth has mangled yet another magnificently conceived, clumsily articulated sentence. In my mind, the words are mellifluous as honey. In my mouth, they are shards of glass.

Australian Author

Julian Bream

There is no piece of guitar music that has the formal beauty of a piano sonata by Mozart, or the richly worked out ideas and passion of a late Beethoven string quartet, or for that matter the beautiful mellifluous poetry of a Chopin Ballade.

British Musician

Jonathan Ive

Every new car, you open the door, and you look at all those internal mellifluous swoopy bits, and they have no meaning.

English Designer

Richard Corliss

Nixon, with his mellifluous baritone, was a great politician for radio but creepy on TV.

American Writer

Often used in literature to describe a character's voice or the sound of music.

Literary Usage

The word evokes a sense of calm and beauty, used to create a positive emotional atmosphere.

Emotive Appeal

Use it to evoke auditory imagery, ideal for setting a scene with sound.

Sensory Imagery

 United Nations announced the formation of what was called the high-level panel on system-wide coherence dealing with un reform in the areas of development humanitarian assistance and environment for the United Nations believe it or not that was a particularly mellifluous

Mellifluous