resonant
adjective/ˈrezənənt/
/ˈrezənənt/
- (formal) (of sound) deep, clear and continuing for a long time
- a deep resonant voice
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- (specialist) causing sounds to continue for a long time synonym resounding
- resonant frequencies
- (literary) having the power to bring images, feelings, memories, etc. into your mind
- a poem filled with resonant imagery
- Everything was resonant with new meaning.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from French résonnant or Latin resonant- ‘resounding’, from the verb resonare, from re- (expressing intensive force) + sonare ‘to sound’.
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