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resoundingly en · ADV

Pronunciation

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  • /ɹɪˈzaʊndɪŋli/ (Received-Pronunciation, US)
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Etymology

Etymology tree English resounding Middle English -ly English -ly English resoundingly From resounding + -ly.

Meanings

  1. With a loud, resonant sound.
    • The corner has been mentioned as a wonderful corner for echoes; it had begun to echo so resoundingly to the tread of coming feet, that it seemed as though the very mention of that weary pacing to and fro had set it going. 1859, Charles Dickens, chapter 6, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
    • Then suddenly he seized a new preparation bottle that stood upon his table and contained the better part of a week's work—a displayed dissection of a snail, beautifully done—and hurled it across the room, to smash resoundingly upon the cemented floor under the bookcase; […] 1909 October, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Sapphire Ring”, in Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.; London: Harper & Brothers, published 1909, →OCLC, § 2, page 289:
    • The bells tolled resoundingly.
    • "Let him return and be damned!" shouted Giles, slapping Marge's fat haunch resoundingly. "He may be lord of the keep, but at present we are keepers of the cellar! More ale! Agnes, you little slut, another song!" 1939, Robert E. Howard, Gates of Empire:
  2. (broadly) Emphatically, so as to be celebrated.
    • My heart needed no tutor for its recognitions, and cried its own "Bravos!" the more resoundingly because un-often summoned from silence. 1946, Paramahansa Yogananda, chapter 5, in Autobiography of a Yogi:
    • The children resoundingly defeated the bully.

Forms

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more resoundingly Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most resoundingly Degree=Sup lexicographic

Translations (4)

fi kaikuvasti (with a loud sound) · fi raikuvasti (emphatically) · fi kajahtavasti (with a loud sound) · sv rungande (with a loud sound)