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Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. characterized by resonance;
- Example: "a resonant voice"
- Example: "hear the rolling thunder"
[syn: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative]
2. serving to bring to mind;
- Example: "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson
- Example: "a campaign redolent of machine politics"
[syn: evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Resonant \Res"o*nant\ (-nant), a. [L. resonans, p. pr. of resonare to resound: cf. F. r['e]sonnant. See Resound.] 1. 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. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] 2. (Elec.) 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.]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, wavering
