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Resounding definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RESOUND'ING, ppr. Echoing; returning, as sound.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder" [syn: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century 1. producing or characterized by resonant sound ; resonating 2. a. impressively sonorous b. emphatic, unequivocal <a resounding success> • resoundingly adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 in senses of RESOUND. 2 unmistakable; emphatic (was a resounding success). Derivatives: resoundingly adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Resound Re*sound" (r?*zound"), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Resounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Resounding.] [OE. resounen, OF. resoner, F. r['e]sonner, from L. resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to make a noise.] 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. ``Common fame . . . resounds back to them again.'' --South. 4. To be mentioned much and loudly. --Milton. 5. To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. A resounding sound is loud and clear. There was a resounding slap as Andrew struck him violently across the face... ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. You can refer to a very great success as a resounding success. The good weather helped to make the occasion a resounding success. ADJ: usu ADJ n [emphasis]

Moby Thesaurus

assertive, boom, booming, consonant, deafening, ear-piercing, ear-rending, ear-splitting, earthshaking, echo, echoic, echoing, forceful, forte, fortissimo, full, growl, growling, grumble, grumbling, insistent, lingering, loud, loud-sounding, loudish, orotund, pealing, persistent, piercing, plangent, reboant, reboation, rebound, rebounding, reecho, reechoing, repercussive, resound, reverberant, reverberating, reverberation, reverberatory, ringing, rotund, round, rumble, rumbling, sonorous, sounding, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, thunder, thundering, thunderous, tonitruant, tonitruous, undamped, vibrant, window-rattling