RESONANT

evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant

(adjective) serving to bring to mind; “cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note”- Wilder Hobson; “a campaign redolent of machine politics”

resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative

(adjective) characterized by resonance; “a resonant voice”; “hear the rolling thunder”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adjective

resonant (comparative more resonant, superlative most resonant)

Resounding, echoing.

(electrical, of a circuit) Adjusted as to dimensions so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency.

Synonyms

• (resounding): booming, remugient; see also sonorous

Noun

resonant (plural resonants)

(phonetics) A sonorant vowel or consonant.

Synonym: sonorant

Source: Wiktionary


Res"o*nant (-nant), a. Etym: [L. resonans, p. pr. of resonare to resound: cf. F. résonnant. See Resound.]

Definition: Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back. Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old. De Quincey.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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