resounding en · ADJ · etymology 1
Pronunciation
Etymology
From resound + -ing.
Meanings
- Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant.
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That causes reverberation.
He suddenly gave her a resounding kiss, which embarrassed me even more than his violence had done.
1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
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(broadly) Emphatic, noteworthy.
On this assessment, whatever one's personal criticisms, the Southern Region's booklet Want to Run a Railway? must be acknowledged a resounding success.
1963 February, “Nobody runs this railway, mate”, in Modern Railways, page 73: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.
2018 March 1, A. J. Goldmann, “Revolution’s the Rage in German Theaters. But Don’t Expect Utopia.”, in New York Times:We had a resounding win against the rival team.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more resounding | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most resounding | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
resoundingness · resoundingly · unresounding
Synonyms
massive · canorous · rotund · vibrant · resonant · remugient · boom-boom · tympanic · booming · huge · remugient · reverberant · sonoral · orotund · resounding · tremendous · sonorous · canorous
Translations (27)
fr résonnant (having a deep, reverberating sound) · ro sunător (having a deep, reverberating sound) · de wohlgestimmt (having a deep, reverberating sound) · ro răsunător (having a deep, reverberating sound) · es resonante (having a deep, reverberating sound) · la resonus (having a deep, reverberating sound) · de nachhallend (having a deep, reverberating sound) · bg ехтящ (having a deep, reverberating sound) · ar مُجِلْجِل (having a deep, reverberating sound) · nl klinkend (emphatic, noteworthy) · fi jymy- (emphatic, noteworthy) · ga fuaimneach (having a deep, reverberating sound) · grc φθεγκτός (having a deep, reverberating sound) · gv aaheeanagh (having a deep, reverberating sound) · fr retentissant (emphatic, noteworthy) · fi kaikuva (having a deep, reverberating sound) · ga macallach (having a deep, reverberating sound) · el αντηχητικός (having a deep, reverberating sound) · fr retentissant (having a deep, reverberating sound) · bg кънтящ (having a deep, reverberating sound) · ga athshondach (having a deep, reverberating sound) · grc φθογγήεις (having a deep, reverberating sound) · es retumbante (having a deep, reverberating sound) · fi kajahtava (having a deep, reverberating sound) · es sonoro (having a deep, reverberating sound) · ca ressonant (having a deep, reverberating sound) · fi murska- (emphatic, noteworthy)