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sonorous

adj
/ˈsɒn.əɹ.əs/UK/ˈsɑːn.ɚ.əs/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin sonōrus, from sonor (“sound”), early 17th century.

  1. borrowed from sonōrus

Definitions

  1. Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.

    • The highlight of the hike was the sonorous cave, which produced a ringing echo from the hiker’s shouts.
    • The Oath is redacted ; pronounced aloud by President Bailly, — and indeed in such a sonorous tone, that the cloud of witnesses, even outdoors, hear it, and bellow response to it.

  2. Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse.

    • He was selected to give the opening speech thanks to his imposing, sonorous voice.
    • For this reason the Italian opera seldom sinks into a poorness of language, but, amidst all the meanness and familiarity of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression.
    • There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude.

  3. Wordy or grandiloquent.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Produced with a relatively open vocal tract and relatively little obstruction of airflow.

      • Vowels are more sonorous (acoustically powerful) than consonants, and so we perceive them as louder and lasting longer.

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Derived

insonorous, nonsonorous, sonorosity, unsonorous

Vish — recursive loop

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

9 hops · closes at sonorous

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