echoic

echoic
    adj 1: (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound;
           "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was
           independently developed in more than one place as an
           onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer [syn: {echoic},
           {imitative}, {onomatopoeic}, {onomatopoeical},
           {onomatopoetic}] [ant: {nonechoic}]
    2: like or characteristic of an echo [syn: {echoic}, {echolike}]
    

echoic \echoic\ adj.
   1. (linguistics) Formed in imitation of a natural sound; --
      of words. Contrasted to {nonechoic}.

   Syn: imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic.
        [WordNet 1.5]

   2. Like or characteristic of an echo.

   Syn: echolike.
        [WordNet 1.5]
    

83 Moby Thesaurus words for "echoic":
      answering, antiphonal, apish, battological, booming, confutative,
      conjugate, delineatory, depictive, derivative, duplicative,
      echoing, embodying, emulative, etymologic, figurative, graphic,
      growling, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative,
      incarnating, iterative, lexical, lexicographic, lexicologic,
      lexigraphic, limning, lingering, mimetic, mimic, mimish, onomastic,
      onomatologic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, paronymic, paronymous,
      parrotlike, persistent, personifying, pictographic, pictorial,
      portraying, reboant, rebounding, recapitulative, redundant,
      reduplicative, reechoing, refutative, reiterant, reiterative,
      rejoining, repeating, repercussive, repetitional, repetitionary,
      repetitious, repetitive, replying, representational,
      representative, representing, resounding, respondent, responding,
      responsive, returning, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory,
      rumbling, simulative, sounding, symbolizing, tautological,
      tautologous, thundering, typifying, undamped, vivid