Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | low |
| Synonyms: | bass, deep, low-pitched, resonant, sonorous |
| Main Entry: | plangent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resonant |
| Synonyms: | beating, booming, clangorous, consonant, deep, deep-toned, earsplitting, echoing, electrifying, enhanced, full, heightened, intensified, loud, mellow*, noisy, orotund, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, roaring, rotund, round, sonorant, sonorous, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous, vibrant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | puffed-up |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | pompous |
| Synonyms: | affected, bloated, boastful, bombastic, conceited, flatulent, flaunting, flowery, fustian, grandiloquent, grandiose, high and mighty, high-flown, highfaluting, hoity-toity, imperious, important, inflated, magisterial, magniloquent, narcissistic, orotund, ostentatious, overbearing, overblown, pontifical, portentous, presumptuous, pretentious, puffed up, puffy, rhetorical, self-centered, self-important, selfish, showy, sonorous, stuck-up, supercilious, turgid, uppity, vain, vainglorious, windy |
| Main Entry: | resounding |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resonant |
| Synonyms: | beating, booming, clangorous, consonant, deep, deep-toned, earsplitting, echoing, electrifying, emphatic, enhanced, forceful, full, heightened, intensified, loud, mellow*, noisy, orotund, plangent, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, roaring, rotund, round, sonorant, sonorous, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous, vibrant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ringing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | resonant |
| Synonyms: | beating, booming, clangorous, consonant, deep, deep-toned, earsplitting, echoing, electrifying, enhanced, full, heightened, intensified, loud, mellow*, noisy, orotund, plangent, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, roaring, rotund, round, sonorant, sonorous, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous, vibrant |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | roaring |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | loud |
| Synonyms: | big*, blaring, blatant, blustering, boisterous, booming, cacophonous, clamorous, crashing, deafening, deep, ear-piercing, ear-splitting, earsplitting, emphatic, forte, full, full-mouthed, fulminating, heavy*, high-sounding, intense, loud-voiced, lusty, obstreperous, pealing, piercing, powerful, rambunctious, raucous, resonant, resounding, ringing, rowdy, sonorous, stentorian, strident, strong, thundering, tumultuous, turbulent, turned up, uproarious, vehement, vociferous, wakes the dead |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | symphonious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harmonious |
| Synonyms: | accordant, adapted, amicable, balanced, compatible, concordant, congenial, congruous, consonant, coordinated, cordial, dulcet, euphonious, harmonic, harmonizing, in accord, in chorus, in concert, in harmony, in step, in tune, in unison, like, matching, mellifluous, melodic, melodious, mix, musical, of one mind, on same wavelength, peaceful, rhythmical, silvery, similar, simpatico, sonorous, suitable, sweet-sounding, symmetrical, sympathetic, symphonic, tuneful |
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| Main Entry: | loud |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
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Adjectives: |
big sounding, callithumpian, clamorous, clangorous, deafening, deep, ear-deafening, ear-rending, ear-splitting, enough to wake the dead, enough to wake the seven sleepers, fremescent, full, high-sounding, hypnopompic, loud, megalophonic, multisonous, noisy, obstreperous, perstreperous, piercing, polyphloisboian, powerful, rackety, randan, raucous, routous, shrill, sonorous, stentophonic, stentorian, stertorous, strepent, thundering, tonant, tonitruous, trumpet-tongued, uproarious
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