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 |