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English

Alternative forms

• musicall (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English musical, from Old French [Term?], from Medieval Latin m?sic?lis, from Latin m?sica (“music”) +? -?lis (suffix forming adjectives); equivalent to music +? -al.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mju.z?.k?l/

Adjective

musical (comparative more musical, superlative most musical)

1. Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.

2. Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.

3. Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.

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.

Derived terms

Related terms

• music
• musicality
• musically

Translations

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.
2. (probably archaic or obsolete) A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.

Translations

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /mu.zi?kal/

Adjective

musical (masculine and feminine plural musicals)

1. musical

Derived terms

Noun

musical m (plural musicals)

1. musical

Further reading

• “musical” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “musical” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “musical” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “musical” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

Noun

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

1. A musical.

Inflection

Alternative forms

• musikal

Derived terms

• film-musical

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /my.zi.kal/

Adjective

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

1. musical

Derived terms

• chaises musicales
• comédie musicale
• scie musicale

Related terms

• musique

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• musclai

Galician

Adjective

musical m or f (plural musicais)

1. musical; of or pertaining to music

Synonyms

• (musical): músico

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?mjuzik?l]
• Hyphenation: mu?si?cal
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

musical (plural musicalek)

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

Declension

References

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [muzik?al]

Adjective

musical

1. musical (relating to music)

Synonyms

• music

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English musical.

Noun

musical m (invariable)

1. musical

Occitan

Adjective

musical m (feminine singular musicala, masculine plural musicals, feminine plural musicalas)

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

Derived terms

• musicalitat

Related terms

• musica

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /myzi?kal/
• Rhymes: -al

Adjective

musical

1. musical

Related terms

• mùsica

Polish

Etymology

From English musical, from Middle English musical, from Old French, from Medieval Latin m?sic?lis, from Latin m?sica + -?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mju?zi.kal/

Noun

musical m inan

1. (film, music, theater) musical (stage performance, show or film)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) musicalowy

Further reading

• musical in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• musical in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.zi.?ka?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mu.zi.?kaw/
• Hyphenation: mu?si?cal

Adjective

musical m or f (plural musicais, comparable)

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

   Synonyms: melodioso, melódico

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.

Noun

musical m (plural musicais)

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

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.

Related terms

• músico

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /musi?kal/, [mu.si?kal]
• Hyphenation: mu?si?cal

Adjective

musical (plural musicales)

1. musical

Noun

musical m (plural musicales)

1. musical

Derived terms

Related terms

• música

Further reading

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

English

Alternative forms

• entelligent (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French intelligent, from Latin intelleg?ns (“discerning”), present active participle of intelleg? (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + leg? (“choose, pick out, read”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t?l?d???nt/

Adjective

intelligent (comparative more intelligent or intelligenter, superlative most intelligent or intelligentest)

1. Of high or especially quick cognitive capacity, bright.
2. Well thought-out, well considered.

3. Characterized by thoughtful interaction.

4. Having at least a similar level of brain power to humankind.

5. Having an environment-sensing automatically-invoked built-in computer capability.

Synonyms

• (of high or quick cognitive capacity): See Thesaurus:intelligent
• (similar level of brain power to mankind): See Thesaurus:self-aware

Antonyms

• stupid

Translations

Danish

Etymology

From French intelligent.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /enteli??nt/, [ent?eli????n?d?]

Adjective

intelligent

1. intelligent

Inflection

Synonyms

• begavet

Antonyms

• dum
• uintelligent

Derived terms

• intelligent liv
• uintelligent

Related terms

• intelligens

References

• “intelligent” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From French intelligent, from Latin intelleg?ns (“discerning”), present active participle of intelleg? (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + leg? (“choose, pick out, read”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

intelligent (comparative intelligenter, superlative intelligentst)

1. intelligent, bright, smart

Inflection

Related terms

• intellect
• intellectueel m & adjective
• intelligentia
• intelligentie

French

Etymology

From Latin intellig?ns (“discerning”), present active participle of intelleg? (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + leg? (“choose, pick out, read”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.te.li.???/, /??.t?.li.???/, /??.t?l.li.???/

Adjective

intelligent (feminine singular intelligente, masculine plural intelligents, feminine plural intelligentes)

1. intelligent

Derived terms

• intelligemment
• téléphone intelligent

Related terms

References

Further reading

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

German

Etymology

From Latin intelleg?ns (“discerning”), present active participle of intelleg? (“understand, comprehend”), itself from inter (“between”) + leg? (“choose, pick out, read”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??nt?li???nt/

Adjective

intelligent (comparative intelligenter, superlative am intelligentesten)

1. intelligent
   • 2010, Der Spiegel, issue 5/2010, page 100:

Declension

Related terms

• hochintelligent
• Intelligenz
• Intellekt
• intellektuell m

Further reading

• “intelligent” in Duden online

Latin

Verb

intelligent

1. third-person plural future active indicative of intellig?

Swedish

Adjective

intelligent

1. intelligent, bright