'echoic' definitions:
Definition of 'echoic'
(from WordNet)
adjective
(of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound; "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer [syn: echoic, imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic] [ant: nonechoic]
adjective
Like or characteristic of an echo [syn: echoic, echolike]
Definition of 'echoic'
From: GCIDE
- echoic \echoic\ adj.
- 1. (linguistics) Formed in imitation of a natural sound; -- of words. Contrasted to nonechoic.
- Syn: imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic. [WordNet 1.5]
- 2. Like or characteristic of an echo.
- Syn: echolike. [WordNet 1.5]
Synonyms of 'echoic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- answering,
- antiphonal,
- apish,
- battological,
- booming,
- confutative,
- conjugate,
- delineatory,
- depictive,
- derivative,
- duplicative,
- echoing,
- embodying,
- emulative,
- etymologic,
- figurative,
- graphic,
- growling,
- ideographic,
- illustrational,
- illustrative,
- imitative,
- incarnating,
- iterative,
- lexical,
- lexicographic,
- lexicologic,
- lexigraphic,
- limning,
- lingering,
- mimetic,
- mimic,
- mimish,
- onomastic,
- onomatologic,
- onomatopoeic,
- onomatopoetic,
- paronymic,
- paronymous,
- parrotlike,
- persistent,
- personifying,
- pictographic,
- pictorial,
- portraying,
- reboant,
- rebounding,
- recapitulative,
- redundant,
- reduplicative,
- reechoing,
- refutative,
- reiterant,
- reiterative,
- rejoining,
- repeating,
- repercussive,
- repetitional,
- repetitionary,
- repetitious,
- repetitive,
- replying,
- representational,
- representative,
- representing,
- resounding,
- respondent,
- responding,
- responsive,
- returning,
- reverberant,
- reverberating,
- reverberatory,
- rumbling,
- simulative,
- sounding,
- symbolizing,
- tautological,
- tautologous,
- thundering,
- typifying,
- undamped,
- vivid