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resonant

adj · noun · 6 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • /ˈɹɛzənənt/
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adj

Meaning 1

Resounding, echoing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • From across the valley came the resonant sound of a distant church bell.
  • strike a resonant note

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

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adj

Meaning 2

Adjusted as to dimensions so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: business, electrical-engineering, electricity, electromagnetism, energy, engineering, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A sonorant vowel or consonant.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sonorant

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A sonorant vowel or consonant.

Any of the Proto-Indo-European consonants *l, *m, *n, *r, *w (*u̯), and *y (*i̯) or its descendants in an Indo-European language, capable of syllabic pronunciation in the zero grade and represented by the cover symbol ⟨R⟩ in structural notation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Indo-European-studies

Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: sonorant

Antonyms: none provided

5

adjective satellite

Meaning 5

serving to bring to mind- Wilder Hobson

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note
  • a campaign redolent of machine politics

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: evocative, redolent, remindful, reminiscent

Antonyms: none provided

6

adjective satellite

Meaning 6

characterized by resonance

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a resonant voice
  • hear the rolling thunder

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Borrowed from French résonnant or Latin resonantem.

Across languages

Translations

9 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: ехтящ (ehtjašt) — resounding, echoing
  • Bulgarian: резониращ (rezonirašt) — resounding, echoing
  • Catalan: ressonant — resounding, echoing
  • Chinese Mandarin: 洪亮 (hóngliàng) — resounding, echoing
  • Chinese Mandarin: 響亮 /响亮 (xiǎngliàng) — resounding, echoing
  • Greek: αντηχητικός (antichitikós) — resounding, echoing
  • Irish: athshondach — resounding, echoing
  • Irish: fuaimneach — resounding, echoing
  • Spanish: resonante — resounding, echoing