resonant

3 definitions found

resonant - 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.]

resonant - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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]

resonant - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "resonant":
     beating, booming, consonant, deep, earsplitting, electrifying,
     enhanced, fat, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, full,
     harmonic, heightened, intensified, libratory, loud, mellow, noisy,
     nutational, orotund, oscillating, oscillatory, pendular, pendulous,
     periodic, plangent, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing,
     resonating, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing,
     rolling, rotund, round, sonorous, sounding, stentorian, strident,
     thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous, vacillating,
     vacillatory, vibrant, vibratile, vibrating, vibratory, wavering