soughing

Thân thiện

The wind is soughing through the tall pine trees.

Definition

1. Adjective:
   • Characterized by soft, sighing, or rustling sounds: Describing a continuous, low, and often melancholic sound, typically produced by wind moving through trees, water flowing gently, or similar natural phenomena.

Usage Examples

• Adjective:
  • The soughing pines created a peaceful atmosphere in the forest.
  • We fell asleep to the soughing of the breeze through the reeds.
  • The poem described the soughing willows by the riverbank.

Advanced Usage

• Used poetically or literarily: "Soughing" is most commonly found in literary, poetic, or descriptive prose to evoke a specific auditory and emotional atmosphere, often one of calm, sadness, or solitude.
  • He wrote of the soughing tide, a sound that spoke of endless time.

Variants and Related Words

• Sough (verb): To make a soft, murmuring, sighing, or rustling sound.
  • The wind will sough in the wires all night.
• Susurrous (adjective): Full of whispering or rustling sounds. (A more formal synonym).

Synonyms

• Murmuring: Making a low, continuous, indistinct sound.
• Rustling: Making a soft, muffled crackling sound like that caused by the movement of dry leaves or paper.
• Sighing: Emitting a long, deep, audible breath expressing sadness, relief, or weariness; used figuratively for sounds.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• (To) sough like the wind: A simile emphasizing the soft, continuous, and melancholic quality of a sound.
  • In the silence, the distant traffic soughed like the wind.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. characterized by soft sounds
   • a murmurous brook
   • a soughing wind in the pines
   • a slow sad susurrous rustle like the wind fingering the pines- R.P.Warren

Từ đồng nghĩa

• murmurous
• rustling
• susurrous