English > reverberant: 1 sense > adjective 1| Meaning | Having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected. |
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| Examples | - "a reverberant room"
- "the reverberant booms of cannon"
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| Narrower | bright, brilliant | Clear and sharp and ringing |
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| clinking | like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped |
| echoing, reechoing | (of sounds) repeating by reflection |
| hollow | As if echoing in a hollow space |
| jingling, jingly | Having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells |
| live | Highly reverberant |
| resonant, resonating, resounding, reverberating, reverberative | Characterized by resonance |
| tinkling, tinkly | like the short high ringing sound of a small bell |
| vibrant | Of sounds that are strong and resonating |
| Opposite | unreverberant, nonresonant | not reverberant |
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| Spanish | reverberante |
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| Nouns | reverberance | having the character of a loud deep sound |
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| Verbs | reverberate | ring or echo with sound |
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| reverberate | to throw or bend back (from a surface) |
| reverberate | be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves |