MEANING
Soft and pleasantly sweet in sound.
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- dulcet tones
- dulcet voice
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Dulcet tones drifted from the adjoining room.
Her dulcet voice contrasted with the harsh announcement.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more dulcet; superlative most dulcet where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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