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resonant

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res·o·nant  (rz-nnt)
adj.
1.
a. Strong and deep in tone; resounding: a resonant voice.
b. Having a lasting presence or effect; enduring: "Cranmer compiled the first Book of Common Prayer, writing some of the most resonant phrases in the English tongue" Allen D. Boyer.
c. Strongly reminiscent; evocative: a monument that is resonant of the nation's past glory.
2. Producing or exhibiting resonance: resonant frequency excitation.
3. Resulting from or as if from resonance: resonant amplification.
n.
Linguistics A sonorant.

[Latin resonns, resonant-, present participle of resonre, to resound; see resound.]

reso·nant·ly adv.

resonant
Adjective
1. resounding or re-echoing
2. producing resonance: the resonant cavities of the mouth
3. full of resonance: his voice is a resonant baritone
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.resonant - characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder"
reverberant - having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon"
2.resonant - serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics"
mindful, aware - bearing in mind; attentive to; "ever mindful of her health"; "mindful of his responsibilities"; "mindful of these criticisms, I shall attempt to justify my action"

resonant
Translations
Spanish resonant [ˈrɛzənənt] adjresonante
French resonant [ˈrɛzənənt] adjrésonnant(e)
German resonant [ˈrɛzənənt] resonance adj (sound, voice) → volltönend;
(place) → widerhallend

Italian resonant [ˈrɛzənənt] adjrisonante

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The resonant, laughing voices of these gorgeous maidens scared away the multitude of humming-birds, whose delicate wings wreathed with the mist of their vibration the tops of flowering bushes.
This had become thoroughly her attitude by the time that, in my recital of the events of the night, I reached the point of what Miles had said to me when, after seeing him, at such a monstrous hour, almost on the very spot where he happened now to be, I had gone down to bring him in; choosing then, at the window, with a concentrated need of not alarming the house, rather that method than a signal more resonant.
As we approached, methought there issued from it a slight humming noise as from one of your Spaceland bluebottles, only less resonant by far, so slight indeed that even in the perfect stillness of the Vacuum through which we soared, the sound reached not our ears till we checked our flight at a distance from it of something under twenty human diagonals.
 
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