Reverberant

//ɹɪˈvɜːbəɹənt// adj

adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Turned up sigmoidally, with the end pointing outward; reboundant. rare

    "Their tailes forked, nowed, resignant, reuerberant, descendant, percussed and contercoloured. In all these fourmes, or likenesses they are descriued, and pictured: as also otherwise ensigned or marked, then here is remembred. Wherefore I wil presently write more, […]"

  2. 2
    Tending to reverberate.

    "His snoring was reverberant."

Adjective
  1. 1
    having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected wordnet

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boomingbrilliantcavernousclinkingechoicechoing

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"They, in the rock reverberant held fast, / moan at the doors. Here, throned aloft, he reigns; / his sceptre calms their rage, their violence restrains: / else earth and sea and all the firmament / the winds together through the void would sweep."

Etymology

From Middle French reverberant (present participle of reverberer), or directly from Latin reverberāns (present participle of reverberō); compare French réverbérant, Italian riverberante, Portuguese reverberante, and Spanish reverberante.

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