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ADJECTIVE (2)

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

2. serving to bring to mind;
- Example: "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson
- Example: "a campaign redolent of machine politics"
[syn: evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Resonant \Res"o*nant\ (-nant), a. [L. resonans, p. pr. of resonare to resound: cf. F. r['e]sonnant. See Resound.] 1. Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back. [1913 Webster] Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster] 2. (Elec.) Adjusted as to dimensions (as an electric circuit) so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

resonant adj 1: characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder" [syn: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative] 2: serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics" [syn: evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent, resonant]