musical

• musicall (obsolete)

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmju.zɪ.kəl/

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musical (comparative more musical, superlative most musical)

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

   musical proportion

   musical instruments

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

   She had a musical voice.

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

   having a musical ear

   The child is musical.

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.

• music
• musicality
• musically

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.
   • 2004, Steven Adler, On Broadway: Art and Commerce on the Great White Way, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 221:

     It is unthinkable for a straight play to enjoy a life span like those of the blockbuster musicals or to earn such astronomical grosses.

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

• jukebox musical
• megamusical

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [mu.ziˈkal]

musical m or f (masculine and feminine plural musicals)

1. musical

musical m (plural musicals)

1. musical

• “musical” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “musical”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “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.

Borrowed from English musical.

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

1. A musical.

• musikal

• film-musical

Borrowed from Medieval Latin mūsicālis. By surface analysis, musique +‎ -al.

• IPA^(key): /my.zi.kal/

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

1. musical

• Haitian Creole: mizikal
• → Persian: موزیکال (muzikâl)
• → Turkish: müzikal

• “musical”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• musclai

• IPA^(key): /musiˈkal/ [mu.s̺iˈkɑɫ]
• Rhymes: -al
• Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal

musical m or f (plural musicais)

1. musical; of or pertaining to music

   Synonym: músico

• “musical”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, since 2012

Borrowed from English musical.[1]

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

musical (plural musicalek)

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

• IPA^(key): [muzikˈal]

musical

1. musical (relating to music)

• music

Borrowed from English musical.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmju.zi.kol/[1]
• Rhymes: -uzikol

musical m (invariable)

1. musical

• masculi

musical m (definite singular musicalen, indefinite plural musicaler, definite plural musicalene)

1. form removed by a 1982 spelling decision; superseded by musikal

• musicau (Gascony, Provençal)

• IPA^(key): /myziˈkal/

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

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

• musicalitat

• musica

• IPA^(key): /myziˈkal/
• Rhymes: -al

musical

1. musical

• mùsica

Unadapted borrowing from English musical, from Middle English musical, from Old French, from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica + -ālis.

• IPA^(key): /mjuˈzi.kal/

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• Rhymes: -ikal
• Syllabification: mu‧si‧cal

musical m inan

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

• musical in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• musical in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From música (“music”) +‎ -al (“of or relating to”).

• Rhymes: (Portugal) -al, (Brazil) -aw
• Hyphenation: mu‧si‧cal

musical m or f (plural musicais)

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

   Synonyms: melodioso, melódico

For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.

• musicalmente

musical m (plural musicais)

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

For quotations using this term, see Citations:musical.

• músico

• IPA^(key): /musiˈkal/ [mu.siˈkal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: mu‧si‧cal

musical m or f (masculine and feminine plural musicales)

1. musical

musical m (plural musicales)

1. musical

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