Meaning

With a loud, resonant sound..

Definitions by Sense

1. With a loud, resonant sound.
2. (by extension) Emphatically, so as to be celebrated.

Example Sentences

The bells tolled resoundingly.

The corner has been mentioned as a wonderful corner for echoes; it had begun to echo so resoundingly to the tread of coming feet, that it seemed as though the very mention of that weary pacing to and fro had set it going.

Then suddenly he seized a new preparation bottle that stood upon his table and contained the better part of a week's work—a displayed dissection of a snail, beautifully done—and hurled it across the room, to smash resoundingly upon the cemented floor under the bookcase;

"Let him return and be damned!" shouted Giles, slapping Marge's fat haunch resoundingly. "He may be lord of the keep, but at present we are keepers of the cellar! More ale! Agnes, you little slut, another song!"

The children resoundingly defeated the bully.

My heart needed no tutor for its recognitions, and cried its own "Bravos!" the more resoundingly because un-often summoned from silence.

Word Forms

• more resoundingly
• most resoundingly

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When Should You Use Resoundingly?

Use resoundingly when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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