musical

Meanings

Adjective

• Of, belonging or relating to music, or to its performance or notation.
• Pleasing to the ear; sounding agreeably; having the qualities of music; melodious; harmonious.
• Fond of music; discriminating with regard to music; gifted or skilled in music.
• 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.

Noun

• A stage performance, show or film that involves singing, dancing and musical numbers performed by the cast as well as acting.
• A meeting or a party for a musical entertainment; a musicale.

Origin

• From Middle English musical, from Old French, from Medieval Latin mūsicālis, from Latin mūsica -ālis; equivalent to music + -al.