resounding
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/
Audio (US) (file) Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ
Adjective
resounding (comparative more resounding, superlative most resounding)
- Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant.
- Synonyms: canorous, remugient; see also Thesaurus:sonorous
- That causes reverberation.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- He suddenly gave her a resounding kiss, which embarrassed me even more than his violence had done.
- (by extension) Emphatic, noteworthy.
- Synonyms: huge, massive, tremendous
- We had a resounding win against the rival team.
- 1963 February, “Nobody runs this railway, mate”, in Modern Railways, page 73:
- On this assessment, whatever one's personal criticisms, the Southern Region's booklet Want to Run a Railway? must be acknowledged a resounding success.
- 2018 March 1, A. J. Goldmann, “Revolution’s the Rage in German Theaters. But Don’t Expect Utopia.”, in New York Times:
- Mr. Serra has managed to coax two legendary European actors out of retirement for the production: 79-year-old Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s wife and muse, plays an exiled French duchess and notorious libertine, and 73-year-old Helmut Berger, who appeared in several of Luchino Visconti’s films, takes the role of a freethinking German duke. But despite the big names attached, “Liberté” is a resounding failure.
Derived terms
Translations
having a deep, reverberating sound
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Noun
resounding (plural resoundings)
- gerund of resound
- 2000, Harold Schechter, Nevermore, page 13:
- A tense hush — similar to those intervals of electrical stillness that separate the resoundings of a thunderstorm — fell upon the room.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌɹiːˈsaʊnd.ɪŋ/
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