'Resonant' definitions:
Definition of 'resonant'
From: WordNet
adjective
Characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder" [syn: resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative]
adjective
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]
Definition of 'Resonant'
From: GCIDE
- 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.]
Synonyms of 'resonant'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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
Words containing 'Resonant'
- Resonance,
- Resonancy,
- Resonantly,
- Resonator,
- resonate,
- resonating,
- Pulmonary resonance,
- Vocal resonance,
- cavity resonator,
- magnetic resonance,
- nuclear resonance,
- resonant circuit,
- resonating chamber,
- electron paramagnetic resonance,
- electron spin resonance,
- magnetic resonance imaging,
- nuclear magnetic resonance,
- proton magnetic resonance,
- functional magnetic resonance imaging,
- blood-oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging