Synonyms for resonant
- adjective
Most common
loud resounding sonorous reverberant evocative redolent sounding vibratory
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Sonorous — resounding, echoing
sonorous, resounding, reverberant, loud, orotund, reverberative, vibrant, remugient rare
2. Evocative
Definitions
- adj. 1
Resounding, echoing.
From across the valley came the resonant sound of a distant church bell.
- adj. 2
Adjusted as to dimensions so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency.
Example sentences
- loud She carried on talking in spite of the loud noise.
- resounding Algeria is making resounding economic progress.
- sonorous I like this newsreader's sonorous voice.
- evocative The gentle purr of the turtle dove is an evocative sound of summer.
- redolent It was redolent of the early days of the Internet.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| resonant | steady | |
| loud | rising | |
| resounding | rising | |
| sonorous | steady | |
| reverberant | steady | |
| evocative | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- loud1
- 7 letters
- vibrant2, ringing2, booming2, orotund
- 8 letters
- sounding2, sonorous3, redolent3
- 9 letters
- evocative4, vibratory, remugient, remindful
- 10 letters
- resounding3
- 11 letters
- reminiscent4, reverberant
- 13 letters
- reverberative
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (vibrant2 = 2 syllables).