resounding

English

Etymology 1

resound +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/

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• Rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ

Adjective

resounding (comparative more resounding, superlative most resounding)

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

   Synonyms: canorous, remugient; see also Thesaurus:sonorous

2. That causes reverberation.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

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

3. (by extension) Emphatic, noteworthy.

   Synonyms: huge, massive, tremendous

   We had a resounding win against the rival team.

   • 1963 February, “Nobody runs this railway, mate”, in Modern Railways, page 73:

     On this assessment, whatever one's personal criticisms, the Southern Region's booklet Want to Run a Railway? must be acknowledged a resounding success.

   • 2018 March 1, A. J. Goldmann, “Revolution’s the Rage in German Theaters. But Don’t Expect Utopia.”, in New York Times:

     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.

Derived terms

• resoundingly

Translations

having a deep, reverberating sound

• Arabic: مُجِلْجِل (mujiljil)
• Bulgarian: ехтящ (bg) (ehtjašt), кънтящ (bg) (kǎntjašt)
• Catalan: ressonant (ca)
• Finnish: kaikuva (fi), kajahtava
• French: résonnant (fr)
• German: nachhallend (de), wohlgestimmt
• Greek: αντηχητικός (el) (antichitikós)

  Ancient: φθεγκτός (phthenktós), φθογγήεις (phthongḗeis)

• Irish: athshondach, macallach, fuaimneach
• Latin: resonus
• Manx: aaheeanagh
• Romanian: răsunător (ro), sunător (ro)
• Spanish: retumbante (es), resonante, sonoro (es)

emphatic, noteworthy

• Dutch: klinkend (nl)
• Finnish: murska-, jymy-
• French: retentissant (fr)

Noun

resounding (plural resoundings)

1. gerund of resound
   • 2000, Harold Schechter, Nevermore, page 13:

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

Etymology 2

resound +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌɹiːˈsaʊnd.ɪŋ/

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Verb

resounding

1. present participle and gerund of resound