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resonant definition

reso·nant (-nənt)

adjective

  1. resounding or reechoing a resonant sound
  2. producing resonance; increasing the intensity of sounds by sympathetic vibration resonant walls
  3. full of, characterized by, or intensified by, resonance a resonant voice, a resonant passage in a novel
  4. of or in resonance

Etymology: L resonans, prp. of resonare, to resound: see re- & sound,

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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