Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (1)
1.
(of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound;
- Example: "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"- Example: "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer[syn: echoic, imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
onomatopoeical
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]