Grating and Melodious

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Grating adjective - Harsh and dry in sound.

Usage example: with a grating voice, she croaked a feeble “hello”

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Melodious is an antonym for grating.

Nearby Words: grate, grated, gratingly, grater

Melodious adjective - Having a pleasantly flowing quality suggestive of music.

Usage example: preferred the melodious sounds of the woodlands to anything produced in a concert hall

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Grating is an antonym for melodious in topics: musical, harmonious.

Nearby Words: melody, melodiousness, melodic, melodiously, Melodi

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