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clangorous
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deep, resonant in sound |
| Synonyms: | cavernous, clangorous, dull, echoing, flat, ghostly, low, muffled, mute, muted, resounding, reverberant, ringing, roaring, rumbling, sepulchral, sounding, thunderous, toneless, vibrant, vibrating |
| Antonyms: | high, light, soft |
| Main Entry: | resonant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | vibrant in sound |
| 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, ringing, roaring, round, sonorant, sonorous, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous |
| Antonyms: | faint, quiet |
| Main Entry: | shrill |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | high-pitched, harsh in sound |
| Synonyms: | acute, argute, blaring, blatant, cacophonous, clanging, clangorous, deafening, discordant, ear-piercing, earsplitting, high, metallic, noisy, penetrating, piercing, piping, raucous, screeching, sharp, strident, thin, treble |
| Antonyms: | low, soft |
| Main Entry: | metallic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | suggestive of metal in sound |
| Synonyms: | bell-like, clanging, clangorous, resonant, resounding, ringing |
| 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: | 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
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