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