Word Meanings - RESOUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame

Additional info about word: RESOUND

resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame . . . resounds back to them again." South. 4. To be mentioned much and loudly. Milton. 5. To echo or reverberate; to be resonant; as, the earth resounded with his praise.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of RESOUND)

• Reverberate
• Echo
• recoil
• reflect
• revert
• resound

Related words: (words related to RESOUND)

• RESOUND
  resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
• REFLECTOR
  1. One who, or that which, reflects. Boyle. Something having a polished surface for reflecting light or heat, as a mirror, a speculum, etc. A reflecting telescope. A device for reflecting sound.
• REVERTED
  Turned back; reversed. Specifically: Bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S.
• REVERTENT
  A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system. E. Darwin.
• RECOILMENT
  Recoil.
• REFLECTING
  1. Throwing back light, heat, etc., as a mirror or other surface. 2. Given to reflection or serious consideration; reflective; contemplative; as, a reflecting mind. Reflecting circle, an astronomical instrument for measuring angless,
• REFLECTION
  The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex. Angle of reflection, the angle which anything, as a ray of light, on leaving a reflecting surface,
• REFLECTED
  1. Thrown back after striking a surface; as, reflected light, heat, sound, etc. 2. Hence: Not one's own; received from another; as, his glory was reflected glory. 3. Bent backward or outward; reflexed.
• REFLECTENT
  1. Bending or flying back; reflected. "The ray descendent, and the ray reflectent flying with so great a speed." Sir K. Digby. 2. Reflecting; as, a reflectent body. Sir K. Digby.
• REFLECT
  1. To bend back; to give a backwaas, a mirror reflects rays of light; polished metals reflect heat. Let me mind the reader to reflect his eye on our quotations. Fuller. Bodies close together reflect their own color. Dryden. 2. To give back an image
• REVERTIVE
  Reverting, or tending to revert; returning. -- Re*vert"ive*ly, adv. The tide revertive, unattracted, leaves A yellow waste of idle sands behind. Thomson.
• REFLECTINGLY
  With reflection; also, with censure; reproachfully. Swift.
• REVERT
  To change back. See Revert, v. i. To revert a series , to treat a series, as y = a + bx + cx2 + etc., where one variable y is expressed in powers of a second variable x, so as to find therefrom the second variable x, expressed in a series arranged
• REVERTIBLE
  Capable of, or admitting of, reverting or being reverted; as, a revertible estate.
• REVERBERATE
  1. To resound; to echo. 2. To be driven back; to be reflected or repelled, as rays of light; to be echoed, as sound.
• RECOIL
  fundament. The English word was perhaps influenced in form by 1. To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return. Evil on itself shall back recoil. Milton. The solemnity
• RECOILINGLY
  In the manner of a recoil.
• REFLECTIVE
  Reflexive; reciprocal. -- Re*flect"ive*ly, adv. -- Re*flect"ive*ness, n. "Reflectiveness of manner." J. C. Shairp. (more info) 1. Throwing back images; as, a reflective mirror. In the reflective stream the sighing bride, viewing her charms. Prior.
• REVERTER
  1. One who, or that which, reverts. 2. Reversion. Burrill.
• RECOILER
  One who, or that which, recoils.
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• PREVERTEBRAL
  Situated immediately in front, or on the ventral side, of the vertebral column; prespinal.
• IRREFLECTIVE
  Not reflective. De Quincey.
• IRREFLECTION
  Want of reflection.