'onomatopoetic' definitions:

Of or relating to or characterized by onomatopoeia [syn: onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic]

(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]