Reverberant Definition

rĭ-vûrbər-ənt
adjective
Having a tendency to reverberate.
American Heritage
Reverberating; reechoing; resonant.
Webster's New World
Characterized by reverberation; resounding.
American Heritage

(heraldry, of a lion's tail) Turned up sigmoidally, with the end pointing outward; reboundant.

Wiktionary

Tending to reverberate.

His snoring was reverberant.
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Antonyms:
  • unreverberant

Origin of Reverberant

  • Either from the Middle French reverberant (the present participle of reverberer) or from the Latin reverberāns (the present participle of reverberō); compare the French réverbérant, the Italian riverberante, the Portuguese reverberante, and the Spanish reverberante.

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Reverberant Sentence Examples

  • As though shattered by a reverberant echo from the cannon of the Trebbia, the Directory crumbled to pieces, succumbing on the 18th of June 1799 beneath the reprobation showered on Treilhard, Merlin de Douai, and La Rvellire-Lpeaux.

  • Now and again a great berg would capsize with a reverberant roar.

  • The electro-acoustic design allows near perfect loudspeaker response in highly reverberant acoustics.

  • Too little reverberation gives a " dead " acoustic whereas too much reverberation " clouds " the sound to give a reverberant acoustic.

  • Critical Distance The point a distance away from the sound source where the direct sound and the reverberant sound are equal in volume.

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Words Starting With

RREREV

Words Ending With

TNTANT

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