REVERBERANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reverberant mean? 

• REVERBERANT (adjective)
  The adjective REVERBERANT has 1 sense:

1. having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected

  Familiarity information: REVERBERANT used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REVERBERANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected

Context example:

the reverberant booms of cannon

Similar:

bright; brilliant (clear and sharp and ringing)

clinking (like the light sharp ringing sound of glasses being tapped)

echoing; reechoing ((of sounds) repeating by reflection)

hollow (as if echoing in a hollow space)

jingling; jingly (having a series of high-pitched ringing sounds like many small bells)

live (highly reverberant)

resonant; resonating; resounding; reverberating; reverberative (characterized by resonance)

tinkling; tinkly (like the short high ringing sound of a small bell)

vibrant (of sounds that are strong and resonating)

Antonym:

unreverberant (not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate)

Derivation:

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

reverberate (to throw or bend back (from a surface))

reverberate (be reflected as heat, sound, or light or shock waves)

reverberate (ring or echo with sound)

 Context examples 

I could hear no calls or cries—only the sound of the waves, made weirdly hollow and reverberant by the fog.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

His thin lips, like the dies of a machine, stamped out phrases that cut and stung; or again, pursing caressingly about the inchoate sound they articulated, the thin lips shaped soft and velvety things, mellow phrases of glow and glory, of haunting beauty, reverberant of the mystery and inscrutableness of life; and yet again the thin lips were like a bugle, from which rang the crash and tumult of cosmic strife, phrases that sounded clear as silver, that were luminous as starry spaces, that epitomized the final word of science and yet said something more—the poet's word, the transcendental truth, elusive and without words which could express, and which none the less found expression in the subtle and all but ungraspable connotations of common words.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)