musical

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin mūsicālis.
Equivalent to music +‎ -al.

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ˈmju.zɪ.kəl/

Adjective

musical (comparative more musical, superlative most musical)

1. Of or relating to music.
2. Gifted or skilled in music.
3. Pleasing to the ear.

   Her voice had a musical quality.

4. Pertaining to a class of games in which players move while music plays, but have to take a fixed position when it stops; by extension, any situation where people repeatedly change positions.
   • 1962, Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?: A Play, Simon and Schuster →ISBN, page 34

     Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.

   • 2004, Mike Bright, A Dream Realized: A Collection of Poems by Cowboy Mike Bright, Xulon Press →ISBN, page 341

     Musical seats upon an airplane is not a game I recommend.

   • 2006, Evelyn Palfrey, The Price of Passion, Simon and Schuster →ISBN, page 441

     “Sounds like y'all are playing musical houses. How did you convince your mama to move to Austin?”

   • 2011, Leonard James Schoppa, The Evolution of Japan's Party System: Politics and Policy in an Era of Institutional Change, University of Toronto Press →ISBN, page 14

     Parties were splitting, forming, merging, and dissolving in such rapid succession that the game of musical chairs seemed to describe what was going on better than any known theory of political science.

   • 2014, Tyler McMahon, Kilometer 99: A Novel, St. Martin's Griffin →ISBN, page 138

     Among my small circle of college friends, and even more so among the volunteers here, couples are so often changing places, people playing musical lovers.

Noun

musical (plural musicals)

1. A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.

Adjective

musical (masculine and feminine plural musicals)

1. musical

Noun

musical m (plural musicals)

1. musical

Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

Noun

musical c (singular definite musicalen, plural indefinite musicaler or musicals)

1. A musical.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.zi.kal/

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Adjective

musical (feminine singular musicale, masculine plural musicaux, feminine plural musicales)

1. musical

Further reading

• “musical” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• musclai

Adjective

musical m, f (plural musicais)

1. musical; of or pertaining to music

Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmjuzikɛl]
• Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal

Noun

musical (plural musicalek)

1. musical (a show or film which involves singing, dancing and musical numbers)

References

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [muzikˈal]

Adjective

musical

1. musical (relating to music)

Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

Noun

musical m (invariable)

1. musical

Etymology

música (“music”) +‎ -al (“adjective-forming suffix”)

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.zi.ˈkaɫ/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mu.zi.ˈkaw/
• Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal

Adjective

musical m, f (plural musicais, comparable)

1. musical (of or relating to music)
2. musical (pleasing to the ear)

Noun

musical m (plural musicais)

1. musical (stage performance, show or film that focuses on singing and dancing)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /musiˈkal/

Adjective

musical (plural musicales)

1. musical

Noun

musical m (plural musicales)

1. musical

Further reading

• “musical” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.