resonant

Definition of Resonant in English :

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Adjective

1. resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative

characterized by resonance

Example Sentences:
'a resonant voice'
'hear the rolling thunder'

2. evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant

serving to bring to mind

Example Sentences:
'cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note'
'a campaign redolent of machine politics'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Resonant

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adjective

1.

(of sound) resounding or re-echoing

2.

producing or enhancing resonance, as by sympathetic vibration

3.

characterized by resonance

Resonant

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adjective

1.

resounding or reechoing

a resonant sound

2.

producing resonance; increasing the intensity of sounds by sympathetic vibration

resonant walls

3.

full of, characterized by, or intensified by, resonance

a resonant voice, a resonant passage in a novel

4.

of or in resonance

Resonant

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adj.

1.

a. Strong and deep in tone; resounding: a resonant voice.

b. Having a lasting presence or effect; enduring: "Cranmer compiled the first Book of Common Prayer, writing some of the most resonant phrases in the English tongue" (Allen D. Boyer).

c. Strongly reminiscent; evocative: a monument that is resonant of the nation's past glory.

2. Producing or exhibiting resonance: resonant frequency excitation.

3. Resulting from or as if from resonance: resonant amplification.

n.

Linguistics A sonorant.

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