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resounding

adj
/ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/UK/ˌɹiːˈsaʊnd.ɪŋ/UK

Etymology

From resound + -ing.

  1. derived from *swenh₂-✻ — “to sound”
  2. derived from resonāre
  3. derived from resoner — “to make a (deep or echoing) sound; of sounds: to echo; to ring; of one’s name or actions: to be frequently recounted; of a place: to re-echo or ring with sound”
  4. derived from resoner
  5. derived from resoner
  6. inherited from resounen — “to return with an echo, resound; to make a sound, to sound; of speech or writing: to announce a theme”
  7. suffixed as resounding — “resound + ing”

Definitions

  1. Having a deep, rich sound

    Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant.

  2. That causes reverberation.

    • He suddenly gave her a resounding kiss, which embarrassed me even more than his violence had done.

  3. Emphatic, noteworthy.

    • We had a resounding win against the rival team.
    • On this assessment, whatever one's personal criticisms, the Southern Region's booklet Want to Run a Railway? must be acknowledged a resounding success.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. gerund of resound

      • A tense hush — similar to those intervals of electrical stillness that separate the resoundings of a thunderstorm — fell upon the room.

    2. present participle and gerund of resound

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at resounding. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at resounding. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at resounding

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA