resonant: meaning and definitions

EnglishType a word

What is resonant?

  • Strong and deep in tone; resounding: a resonant voice.
  • Having a lasting presence or effect; enduring: "Cranmer compiled the first Book of Common Prayer, writing some of the most resonant phrases in the English tongue” ( Allen D. Boyer).
  • Strongly reminiscent; evocative: a monument that is resonant of the nation's past glory.
  • Producing or exhibiting resonance: resonant frequency excitation.
  • Resulting from or as if from resonance: resonant amplification.
  • Linguistics A sonorant.