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The definition of resonant is a deep color that emphasizes contrast with other colors, or a deep sound that seems to continue to ring, or something that evokes a memory or emotions.

(adjective)

A deep and echoing voice is an example of something that would be described as resonant.
A deep accent wall color that you use to contrast your other paint job is an example of something that would be described as resonant.
Artwork that brings to mind a specific style from another artist is an example of work that is resonant.

See resonant in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

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

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

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resonantly adverb

See resonant in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

a. Strong and deep in tone; resounding: a resonant voice.
b. 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).
c. 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.