[syn: echoic, imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Onomatopoeic \On`o*mat`o*poe"ic\, a.
Onomatopoetic. --Whitney.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
onomatopoeic
adj 1: of or relating to or characterized by onomatopoeia [syn:
onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic]
2: (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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
40 Moby Thesaurus words for "onomatopoeic":
apish, conjugate, delineatory, depictive, derivative, echoic,
embodying, emulative, etymologic, figurative, graphic, ideographic,
illustrational, illustrative, imitative, incarnating, lexical,
lexicographic, lexicologic, lexigraphic, limning, mimetic, mimic,
mimish, onomastic, onomatologic, onomatopoetic, paronymic,
paronymous, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, portraying,
representational, representative, representing, simulative,
symbolizing, typifying, vivid