EGAVE

polyphonic

About 0.40 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Of or relating to polyphony.
    a polyphonic ringtone
  2. adjective Having two or more independent but harmonic melodies.
  3. adjective Able to play more than one musical note at the same time.
  4. adjective Capable of being read in more than one way.

Similar words

contrapuntal polyphonous polytheistic polytheistical psychophonic polydeistic polyptotonic polydeistical polylogistic polyhymnian

Often followed by

music style texture and settings composition novel writing prose

Word family

polyphonically polyphonous polyphonously

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