Associations to the word «Resonant»

Wiktionary

RESONANT, adjective. Resounding, echoing.
RESONANT, adjective. (electrical) (of a circuit) Adjusted as to dimensions so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency.
RESONANT, noun. A sonorant vowel or consonant.

Dictionary definition

RESONANT, adjective. Characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder".
RESONANT, adjective. Serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent of machine politics".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats