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Definition of "listenable" []

  • Being such that listening is pleasurable: an undistinguished but listenable soundtrack. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "listenable" in a sentence
  • "Even the heaviest, most aggressive, anti-mainstream music artists of the time strove for melody and recognized the limitations of "listenable", rebelling from the Top 40 and appealing to outsider kids with high-pitched solos and vocals, reasonable amounts of distortion, loud drums, minor chords, and dissonant note and chord progressions."
  • "Veckatimest and incredible "listenable" quality shared by few other new albums this year."
  • "50,000 Fall Fans Can't Be Wrong goes for the big, "listenable" numbers."