Resounding

/ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/ · adjective

Meaning

Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant..

Definitions by Sense

1. Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant.
2. That causes reverberation.
3. (by extension) Emphatic, noteworthy.
4. gerund of resound
5. present participle and gerund of resound

Example Sentences

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

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.

Mr. Serra has managed to coax two legendary European actors out of retirement for the production: 79-year-old Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s wife and muse, plays an exiled French duchess and notorious libertine, and 73-year-old Helmut Berger, who appeared in several of Luchino Visconti’s films, takes the role of a freethinking German duke. But despite the big names attached, “Liberté” is a resounding failure.

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

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• more resounding
• most resounding
• resoundings

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