resonant

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resonant

/ˈɹɛzənənt/

Where it comes from

Borrowed from French résonnant or Latin resonantem.

adjective more resonant · most resonant

Resounding, echoing. From across the valley came the resonant sound of a distant church bell.
Similar: booming
of a circuit Adjusted as to dimensions so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency.

Similar: remugient

noun resonants

A sonorant vowel or consonant.
Similar: sonorant
Indo European studies Any of the Proto-Indo-European consonants *l, *m, *n, *r, *w (*u̯), and *y (*i̯) or its descendants in an Indo-European language, capable of syllabic pronunciation in the zero grade and represented by the cover symbol ⟨R⟩ in structural notation.
Similar: sonorant

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: resounding, reverberative, ringing, reverberant, rolling, resonating, reverberating, resonance, sounding, loud, powerful, huge, booming, weight, echoing, sonorous

adjective

Similar: remugient

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adj resounding, echoing

Español	resonante
中文	洪亮 hóngliàng, 響亮 /响亮 xiǎngliàng
Ελληνικά	αντηχητικός antichitikós

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@misc{resonant_2026,
  title = {resonant},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/resonant},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}