Microphonous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /maɪ̯ˈkrɒ.fə.nəs/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Microphonous is an adjective meaning (obsolete, rare) Serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; amplifying.
Meaning
(obsolete, rare) Serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; amplifying.
More Meanings
- (dated, rare) Heard through a microphone.
Example Sentences
The invasion of the microphonous tribe began in February, when Dusty and Goldie […]
The incongruity of a vintage Bentley mopping up a field of formula 1 cars at Silverstone complete with microphonous Baxter and Bolster is realistically absurd.
Innumerable degrees of crime, but a whisper in the era of Kent and Blackstone, are now of microphonous volume in strenuousness, and as common as the asphyxial conditions which create it.
The Meteor was a microphonous ear which caught every whisper of the world, and a megaphonic mouth which could trumpet its news to eager millions, or shut itself up as close as a Bank of England vault.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include microcoustic, micracoustic, microtonal, microgenic, micromotional, microscopial.
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