resonant

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  1. adjective Strong and deep in tone; resounding: a resonant voice.
  2. adjective Having a lasting presence or effect; enduring: "Cranmer compiled the first Book of Common Prayer, writing some of the most resonant phrases in the English tongue” (Allen D. Boyer).
  3. adjective Strongly reminiscent; evocative: a monument that is resonant of the nation's past glory.

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  • The movement demonstrates a pliable, resonant, and generous side of humanity...The promise of this unnamed movement is to offer solutions to what appear to be insoluble dilemmas: poverty, global climate change, terrorism, ecological degradation, polarization of income, loss of culture.
  • Prane's voice was rich, resonant, the voice of the trained professional performer. —  The Ship Who Sang
  • Funerals passed to and from it daily and the chants of the resonant-voiced priests became such a frequent thing that we ceased to pay any attention to them. —  On the Fringe of the Great Fight
  • The sight of this young officer set the major to thinking of that evening not so many moons agone when Captain Wren himself appeared and in resonant, far-carrying tone announced "Lieutenant Blakely, sir, is absent." —  An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier
  • His speech was slow, resonant, dignified; his accent of common words was Southern, but in some of his phrases was a slight burr, the subdued echo of a foreign tongue The Englishman was a stocky young fellow, with light hair and reddish side whiskers, a man of the world, doggedly careful in his use of superlatives, but with a habit of saying, "most extraordinary." —  An Arkansas Planter
 

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sonorous ·  high-pitched ·  rhythmic ·  husky ·  guttural ·  melodic ·  vibrant ·  plaintive ·  strident ·  mellow ·  resound ·  harmonious
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin resonāns, resonant-, present participle of resonāre, to resound; see resound.

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  1. from Old French resonnant, French réonnanl =Spanish Portuguese resonante =Italian risonante, from L, resonan (t-) s, present participle of resonare, resound, echo: see resound.
 

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/ˈrɛzənənt/
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