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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

beating, booming, consonant, deep, earsplitting, electrifying, enhanced, fat, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, full, harmonic, heightened, intensified, libratory, loud, mellow, noisy, nutational, orotund, oscillating, oscillatory, pendular, pendulous, periodic, plangent, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing, resonating, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, rolling, rotund, round, sonorous, sounding, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous, vacillating, vacillatory, vibrant, vibratile, vibrating, vibratory, wavering

Dictionary Results for resonant:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

resonant
    adj 1: characterized by resonance; "a resonant voice"; "hear the
           rolling thunder" [syn: resonant, resonating,
           resounding, reverberating, reverberative]
    2: serving to bring to mind; "cannot forbear to close on this
       redolent literary note"- Wilder Hobson; "a campaign redolent
       of machine politics" [syn: evocative, redolent,
       remindful, reminiscent, resonant]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Resonant \Res"o*nant\ (-nant), a. [L. resonans, p. pr. of
   resonare to resound: cf. F. r['e]sonnant. See Resound.]
   1. Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to
      resound; resounding; echoing back.
      [1913 Webster]

            Through every hour of the golden morning, the
            streets were resonant with female parties of young
            and old.                              --De Quincey.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Elec.) Adjusted as to dimensions (as an electric circuit)
      so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the
      passage of electric waves of a given frequency.
      [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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