Thesaurus: sonorous

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1. a. Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.
2. a. Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice.
3. a. Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous.
4. a. Impressive in sound; high-sounding.
5. a. Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep-toned; as, sonorous rhonchi.
6. adj. full and loud and deep
7. 1. Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals. 2. Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice. 3. Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous. 4. Impressive in sound; high-sounding. The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarty of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression. Addison. There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude. E. Everett. 5. (Med.) Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep- toned; as, sonorous rhonchi. Sonorous figures (Physics), figures formed by the vibrations of a substance capable of emitting a musical tone, as when the bow of a violin is drawn along the edge of a piece of glass or metal on which sand is strewed, and the sand arranges itself in figures according to the musical tone. Called also acoustic figures. -- Sonorous tumor (Med.), a tumor which emits a clear, resonant sound on percussion. -- So*no"rous*ly, adv. -- So*no"rous*ness, n.
8. Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep-toned; as, sonorous rhonchi. Sonorous figures (Physics), figuresformed by the vibrations of a substance capable of emitting a musicaltone, as when the bow of a violin is drawn along the edge of a pieceof glass or metal on which sand is strewed, and the sand arrangesitself in figures according to the musical tone. Called also acousticfigures.-- Sonorous tumor (Med.), a tumor which emits a clear, resonantsound on percussion.-- So*no"rous*ly, adv.-- So*no"rous*ness, n.
9. j:100 s full and loud and deep