Echoey
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 That echoes; having an echoing quality.
"That nostalgic luxury is particularly obvious in the former station buffet, which still functioned as a restaurant when I was last there several years ago. Empty and echoey, it was doing brisk trade in Orient Express vintage posters, several of which now adorn my garden office walls."
Example
More examples"Plant physiologist Christina Walters is proud of her work at the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation, where she studies ways to extend the longevity of the Center's massive seed collections. She leads me down long, echoey hallways to the heart of the seed storage lab. I'm soon to discover, it's a frigid heart."
Etymology
From echo + -ey.
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