resonant

/'reznənt/
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resonant

The singer's resonant voice filled the concert hall.

Definition
  1. Adjective:
    • Characterized by resonance: Having a deep, full, rich, and often prolonged sound that is amplified or reinforced by vibration. This can describe sounds, voices, or spaces that produce such sounds.
    • Serving to bring to mind; evocative: Strongly suggesting or recalling images, memories, or emotions.
Usage and Examples
  • Describing a deep, vibrating sound:

    • The actor's resonant voice filled the theater without a microphone.
    • We heard the resonant sound of the church bells across the valley.
  • Describing something that is evocative or suggestive:

    • The old photograph was resonant with memories of her childhood.
    • His speech was resonant of the ideals of a previous generation.
Advanced Usage
  • "Resonant with": This phrase is commonly used to indicate that something is filled with or strongly suggestive of a particular quality, feeling, or memory.
    • The poem is resonant with themes of loss and hope.
    • The ceremony was resonant with tradition.
Variants and Related Words
  • Resonate (verb): To produce or be filled with a deep, full, reverberating sound; to evoke a feeling of shared emotion or belief.
    • Her words resonated with the audience.
  • Resonance (noun): The quality of being resonant; the reinforcement or prolongation of sound by reflection or synchronous vibration; also, the power to evoke enduring images, memories, or emotions.
    • The resonance of his voice was remarkable.
    • The story has a deep cultural resonance.
Synonyms
  • Reverberant: (of a sound) ringing or echoing.
  • Sonorous: (of a sound) imposingly deep and full.
  • Evocative: Bringing strong images, memories, or feelings to mind.
  • Redolent: Strongly reminiscent or suggestive of something.
Antonyms
  • Thin: (of a sound) lacking fullness or strength; weak.
  • Faint: (of a sound) barely perceptible.
  • Muffled: (of a sound) not loud because of being obstructed in some way.
resonant

The singer's resonant voice filled the concert hall.

Adjective
  1. serving to bring to mind
    • cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note- Wilder Hobson
    • a campaign redolent of machine politics
  2. characterized by resonance
    • a resonant voice
    • hear the rolling thunder