echoic

 : 
Adjective
 : 
ech=o=ic

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective echoic has 2 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

echoicadj. 
  •  Formed in imitation of a natural sound; -- of words. Contrasted to nonechoic.  [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

For further exploring for "echoic" in Webster Dictionary Online


TIP #22: To open links on Discovery Box in a new window, use the right click. [ALL]
created in 0.78 seconds
powered by
bible.org - YLSA