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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound;
- Example: "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"
- Example: "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer
[syn: echoic, imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic]

2. like or characteristic of an echo;
[syn: echoic, echolike]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

echoic \echoic\ adj. 1. (linguistics) Formed in imitation of a natural sound; -- of words. Contrasted to nonechoic. Syn: imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic. [WordNet 1.5] 2. Like or characteristic of an echo. Syn: echolike. [WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

echoic adj 1: (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"- Harry Hoijer [syn: echoic, imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic] [ant: nonechoic] 2: like or characteristic of an echo [syn: echoic, echolike]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

83 Moby Thesaurus words for "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