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                                	echoencephalograph |
                                	echoencephalography |
                                	echoer |
                                	echogram |
                                	echography |
                                echoic
                                	| echoing 
                                	| echolalia 
                                	| echoless 
                                	| echolike 
                                	| echolocation 
                            
        echoic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective echoic has 2 senses
- echoic(a = adj.all) imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic - (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound; "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term" Antonym: nonechoic
- echoic(s = adj.all) echolike - like or characteristic of an echo; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
echoic, adj. 
                                            -                                     Formed in imitation of a natural sound; -- of words. Contrasted tononechoic . [WordNet 1.5]
-                                     Like or characteristic of an echo. [WordNet 1.5]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
echoic, adj.  Phonet.  (of a word) imitating the sound it represents; onomatopoeic.
                    Derivative
                        echoically adv.
                                                        THESAURUS
echoic
answering, antiphonal, apish, battological, booming, confutative, conjugate, delineatory, depictive, derivative, duplicative, echoing, embodying, emulative, etymologic, figurative, graphic, growling, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative, incarnating, iterative, lexical, lexicographic, lexicologic, lexigraphic, limning, lingering, mimetic, mimic, mimish, onomastic, onomatologic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, paronymic, paronymous, parrotlike, persistent, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, portraying, reboant, rebounding, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, refutative, reiterant, reiterative, rejoining, repeating, repercussive, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive, replying, representational, representative, representing, resounding, respondent, responding, responsive, returning, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory, rumbling, simulative, sounding, symbolizing, tautological, tautologous, thundering, typifying, undamped, vivid
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