resonant
from
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.]
from
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
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