RESONANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does resonant mean? 

• RESONANT (adjective)
  The adjective RESONANT has 2 senses:

1. characterized by resonance

2. serving to bring to mind

  Familiarity information: RESONANT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RESONANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by resonance

Synonyms:

resonant; resonating; resounding; reverberating; reverberative

Context example:

hear the rolling thunder

Similar:

reverberant (having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected)

Derivation:

resonance (the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities)

resonance (having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant)

resonance (a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system)

resound (emit a noise)

resound (ring or echo with sound)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Serving to bring to mind

Synonyms:

evocative; redolent; remindful; reminiscent; resonant

Context example:

a campaign redolent of machine politics

Similar:

aware; mindful (bearing in mind; attentive to)

 Context examples 

"Again I swear!" came the Professor's resonant voice.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A condition characterized by resonant barking cough, hoarseness and persistant stridor and caused by allergy, foreign body, infection, or neoplasm.

(Croup, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

This one, the Earth-sized Kepler-80g, and four of its neighboring planets form what is called a resonant chain - where planets are locked by their mutual gravity in a rhythmic orbital dance.

(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)

TRAPPIST-1's seven-planet chain of resonances established a record among known planetary systems, the previous holders being the systems Kepler-80 and Kepler-223, each with four resonant planets.

(Astronomers Confirm Orbital Details of TRAPPIST-1’s Least Understood Planet, NASA)

And yet, it was not so much the man nor the drink as was it what was associated with the drink—the bright lights, the mirrors and dazzling array of glasses, the warm and glowing faces and the resonant hum of the voices of men.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)