[syn: echoic, echolike]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
echoic \echoic\ adj.
1. (linguistics) Formed in imitation of a natural sound; --
of words. Contrasted to nonechoic.
Syn: imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. Like or characteristic of an echo.
Syn: echolike.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
echoic
adj 1: (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound;
"onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was
independently developed in more than one place as an
onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer [syn: echoic,
imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical,
onomatopoetic] [ant: nonechoic]
2: like or characteristic of an echo [syn: echoic, echolike]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
83 Moby Thesaurus words for "echoic":
answering, antiphonal, apish, battological, booming, confutative,
conjugate, delineatory, depictive, derivative, duplicative,
echoing, embodying, emulative, etymologic, figurative, graphic,
growling, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative,
incarnating, iterative, lexical, lexicographic, lexicologic,
lexigraphic, limning, lingering, mimetic, mimic, mimish, onomastic,
onomatologic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, paronymic, paronymous,
parrotlike, persistent, personifying, pictographic, pictorial,
portraying, reboant, rebounding, recapitulative, redundant,
reduplicative, reechoing, refutative, reiterant, reiterative,
rejoining, repeating, repercussive, repetitional, repetitionary,
repetitious, repetitive, replying, representational,
representative, representing, resounding, respondent, responding,
responsive, returning, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory,
rumbling, simulative, sounding, symbolizing, tautological,
tautologous, thundering, typifying, undamped, vivid