Extramusical

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Apart from and in addition to music not-comparable

    "Dietrich and Lenya lacked a number of singerly virtues, but their strengths lay in a kind of extramusical quality of feeling and experience."

Example

More examples

"Dietrich and Lenya lacked a number of singerly virtues, but their strengths lay in a kind of extramusical quality of feeling and experience."

Etymology

From extra- + musical.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.