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resonant
| resonant circuit
| resonantly
| resonate
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| resonating chamber
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resonant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective resonant has 2 senses
- resonant(s = adj.all) resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative - characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder" Derived forms noun resonance5, noun resonance3, noun resonance2, verb resound2, verb resound1
- resonant(s = adj.all) evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent - serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"; "a campaign redolent of machine politics"
CIDE DICTIONARY
resonant, a. [L. resonans, p. pr. of resonare to resound: cf. F. résonnant. See Resound.].
- Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back. [1913 Webster]"Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old." [1913 Webster]
- Adjusted as to dimensions (as an electric circuit) so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
resonant, adj.
1 (of sound) echoing, resounding; continuing to sound; reinforced or prolonged by reflection or synchronous vibration.
2 (of a body, room, etc.) tending to reinforce or prolong sounds esp. by synchronous vibration.
3 (often foll. by with) (of a place) resounding.
4 of or relating to resonance.
1 (of sound) echoing, resounding; continuing to sound; reinforced or prolonged by reflection or synchronous vibration.
2 (of a body, room, etc.) tending to reinforce or prolong sounds esp. by synchronous vibration.
3 (often foll. by with) (of a place) resounding.
4 of or relating to resonance.
Derivative
resonantly adv.
Etymology
F r{eacute}sonnant or L resonare resonant- (as RE-, sonare sound)
THESAURUS
resonant
beating, booming, consonant, deep, earsplitting, electrifying, enhanced, fat, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, full, harmonic, heightened, intensified, libratory, loud, mellow, noisy, nutational, orotund, oscillating, oscillatory, pendular, pendulous, periodic, plangent, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing, resonating, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, rolling, rotund, round, sonorous, sounding, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous, vacillating, vacillatory, vibrant, vibratile, vibrating, vibratory, waveringROGET THESAURUS
resonant
Sound
N sound, noise, strain, accent, twang, intonation, tone, cadence, sonorousness, audibility, resonance, voice, aspirate, ideophone, rough breathing, acoustics, phonics, phonetics, phonology, phonography, diacoustics, diaphonics, phonetism, sounding, soniferous, sonorous, sonorific, resonant, audible, distinct, stertorous, phonetic, phonic, phonocamptic, a thousand trills and quivering sounds, forensis strepitus.Resonance
N resonance, ring, ringing, tintinabulation, reflexion, reflection, reverberation, echo, reecho, zap, zot, buzz (hiss), low note, base note, bass note, flat note, grave note, deep note, bass, basso, basso profondo, baritone, barytone, contralto, echo chamber, resonator, tinnitus, bell, doorbell, buzzer, gong, cymbals (musical instruments), sympathetic vibrations, natural frequency, coupled vibration frequency, overtone, resonating cavity, sounding board, tuning fork, tuning, squelch, frequency selection, resonator, resonator circuit, radio resonant structure, aromaticity, alternating double bonds, non-bonded resonance, pi clouds, unsaturation, double bond, (valence), resounding, resonant, reverberant, tinnient, tintinnabulary, sonorous, booming, deep-toned, deep-sounding, deep-mouthed, vibrant, hollow, sepulchral, gruff, sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh, echoing down the mountain and through the dell.
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