Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

resounding

/ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English

Syllables: re-sound-ing
IPA: /ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/

12

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant.

adj

That causes reverberation.

adj

Emphatic, noteworthy.

noun

gerund of resound

verb

present participle and gerund of resound

Example Sentences

"He suddenly gave her a resounding kiss, which embarrassed me even more than his violence had done."
"We had a resounding win against the rival team."
"On this assessment, whatever one's personal criticisms, the Southern Region's booklet Want to Run a Railway? must be acknowledged a resounding success."
"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."
"A tense hush — similar to those intervals of electrical stillness that separate the resoundings of a thunderstorm — fell upon the room."

Etymology

From resound + -ing.

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/

Inflected Forms

more resounding (comparative) most resounding (superlative) resoundings (plural)

Derived Forms

resoundingly resoundingness unresounding

Synonyms

canorous remugient booming boom-boom orotund resonant resounding reverberant rotund sonoral sonorous tympanic

Rhymes With

surrounding founding sounding pounding astounding rounding grounding compounding rebounding confounding bounding hounding

Questions

How do you pronounce resounding?: The recorded pronunciation is /ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/.
What does resounding mean?: Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant.
Where does resounding come from?: From resound + -ing.

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