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resonant

[rez-uh-nuhnt]

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adjective

resounding or echoing, as sounds: the resonant thundering of cannons being fired.

deep and full of resonance: a resonant voice.

pertaining to resonance.

producing resonance; causing amplification or sustention of sound.

pertaining to a system in a state of resonance, especially with respect to sound.

noun

Phonetics. a vowel or a voiced consonant or semivowel that is neither a stop nor an affricate, as, in English, (m, ng, n, l, r, y, w).

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Origin:
1585–95; < Latin resonant- (stem of resonāns), present participle of resonāre to resound; see -ant

Related forms

res·o·nant·ly, adverb

hy·per·res·o·nant, adjective

hy·per·res·o·nant·ly, adverb

non·res·o·nant, adjective

non·res·o·nant·ly, adverb

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un·res·o·nant, adjective

un·res·o·nant·ly, adverb

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Synonyms
2. rich, vibrant, sonorant, reverberant.

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Example Sentences

Yanagimachi's careful, resonant treatment of the material that distinguishes this film.

Women can train themselves to speak in lower, more resonant tones.

The accusation that the rich aren't contributing their fair share is increasingly resonant.

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Yanagimachi's careful, resonant treatment of the material that distinguishes this film.

Women can train themselves to speak in lower, more resonant tones.

The accusation that the rich aren't contributing their fair share is increasingly resonant.

Strutting about, the performers bowed while deep notes boomed from the resonant air sacs.

At present, all of the planets are in resonant orbits.

He blows a few bars, his rich, resonant tone unmistakable even in this crowded room.

What makes them remarkable is their resonant orbits.

It's a cliche so resonant it refuses to die or to be updated.

As with a mechanical flywheel, a resonant cavity can store energy in the form of momentum.

He has a particularly fine tone, resonant and mellow, and a quietly tasteful approach to the music he played.

The track's washed-out reverb chorus and resonant organ chords certainly evoke ethereal sensations.

Great dramas and grand operas build to memorable farewells and resonant exit lines.

The reason why these characters have endured is that they're resonant.

Still, this space-age ax is resonant and probably strong enough to resist multiple smashes into a stage.

Together, the two hammered out a new ending that felt less madcap and more emotionally resonant.

He is fighting a throat problem that leaves his voice less rich, less resonant and free than it once.

The secret to a truly resonant disruptive technology is that it comes from nowhere to unseat an obvious, intuitive approach.

It was resonant with old-world geniality, its good-natured charm informed by long experience, its cheerfulness verging on wisdom.

Elop's perspective continues to resonant with real business requirements.

The fact that a bunch of beads in a dish do this is resonant with the fact that real subatomic particles in the real world do.

Especially clear and resonant are high and mid ranges.

Overlie, whose work has a similar simplicity and resonant concentration.

They display triadic resonant patterns to indicate this.

Resonant coupling makes the transfer of energy almost a million times more efficient.

Their silence and their hunched, embryonic postures are resonant with fear and a sense of futility.

Moyet is in good form, filling out her resonant vocals with a lilting string section and sharp sequencing.

Scores of gleaming, hand-painted guitars dangle from overhead, many models resonant with musical history:.

Resonant words, but there's not enough here to back them up.

Every antenna it can get under control will start to emit at the resonant frequency of the cyborgs' optical sensors.

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World English Dictionary

resonant (ˈrɛzənənt)

—*adj*
1.	(of sound) resounding or re-echoing
2.	producing or enhancing resonance, as by sympathetic vibration
3.	characterized by resonance

'resonantly

—*adv*

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"Now you know very well that there are no less than fifty-eight different pieces in a violin. These pieces are strangers to each other, and it takes a century, more or less, to make them thoroughly acquainted. At last they learn to vibrate in harmony, and the instrument becomes an organic whole, as if it were a great seed-capsule which had grown from a garden-bed in Cremona, or elsewhere. Besides, the wood is juicy and full of sap for fifty years or so, but at the end of fifty or hundred years gets tolerably dry and comparatively resonant. Don't you see that all this is just as true of a poem? Counting each word as a piece, there are more pieces in an average copy of verses than in a violin. The poet has forced all these words together, and fastened them, and they don't understand it at first. But let the poem be repeated aloud and murmured over in the mind's muffled whisper often enough, and at length the parts become knit together in such absolute solidarity that you could not change a syllable without the whole world's crying out against you for meddling with the harmonious fabric. Observe, too, how the drying process takes place in the stuff of a poem just as in that of a violin."

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