Word Meanings - SOUNDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SOUNDING)

• Loud
• Sounding
• sonorous
• resonant
• noisy
• audible
• vociferous
• clamorous
• obstreperous

Related words: (words related to SOUNDING)

• CLAMOROUS
  Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness,
• VOCIFEROUS
  Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds. -- Vo*cif"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Vo*cif"er*ous*ness, n.
• SOUNDER
  One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
• SOUNDLESS
  Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
• AUDIBLE
  Capable of being heard; loud enough to be heard; actually heard; as, an audible voice or whisper.
• AUDIBLENESS
  The quality of being audible.
• RESONANT
  Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back. Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old. De Quincey.
• SOUNDLY
  In a sound manner.
• SOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
• NOISY
  1. Making a noise, esp. a loud sound; clamorous; vociferous; turbulent; boisterous; as, the noisy crowd. 2. Full of noise. "The noisy town." Dryden.
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• SOUND-BOARD
  A sounding-board. To many a row of pipes the sound-board breathes. Milton.
• SOUNDING-BOARD
  A thin board which propagates the sound in a piano, in a violin, and in some other musical instruments. 2. A board or structure placed behind or over a pulpit or rostrum to give distinctness to a speaker's voice. 3. pl.
• SOUNDABLE
  Capable of being sounded.
• RESONANTLY
  In a reasonant manner.
• SONOROUS
  Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep- toned; as, sonorous rhonchi. Sonorous figures , figures formed by the vibrations of a substance capable of emitting a musical tone, as when the bow of a violin is drawn along the edge
• SOUNDAGE
  Dues for soundings.
• OBSTREPEROUS
  Attended by, or making, a loud and tumultuous noise; clamorous; noisy; vociferous. "The obstreperous city." Wordsworth. "Obstreperous approbation." Addison. Beating the air with their obstreperous beaks. B. Jonson. -- Ob*strep"er*ous*ly, adv. --
• SOUND
  The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.
• SOUNDING
  Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words. Dryden.
• HIGH-SOUNDING
  Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
• 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
• MISSOUND
  To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
• INAUDIBLE
  Not audible; incapable of being heard; silent. -- In*au"di*ble*ness, n. -- In*au"di*bly, adv.
• CONSOUND
  A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera, esp. the comfrey. (more info) comfrey ; con- +