Meaning

2 senses
  1. Resounding, echoing.

    From across the valley came the resonant sound of a distant church bell.

    strike a resonant note

  2. Adjusted as to dimensions so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency.

More definitions
  • characterized by resonance
  • serving to bring to mind

Examples

3 sentences
  1. Our group played guitars while the others randomly hit resonant objects.

  2. Tom's deep voice is so resonant and mellifluous that I could spend hours listening to him read aloud from the phone book.

    deToms tiefe Stimme ist so resonant und wohlklingend, dass ich ihm stundenlang zuhören könnte, selbst wenn er aus dem Telefonbuch vorläse. — brauchinet

  3. And then suddenly, in the very dead of the night, there came a sound to my ears, clear, resonant, and unmistakable.

Translations

1 languages

Origin

Borrowed from French résonnant or Latin resonantem.

Borrowed from French résonnant or Latin resonantem.

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Forms

more resonant, most resonant
Comparativemore resonant Lesson
Superlativemost resonant Lesson

regular

Synonyms

10 synonyms
resounding:booming
Close in meaning

Word family

9 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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