reverberant
/ɹəˈvɝbəɹənt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.70 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Turned up sigmoidally, with the end pointing outward; reboundant.
adj
Tending to reverberate.
Example Sentences
- "Their tailes forked, nowed, resignant, reuerberant, descendant, percussed and contercoloured. In all these fourmes, or likenesses they are descriued, and pictured: as also otherwise ensigned or marked, then here is remembred. Wherefore I wil presently write more, […]"
- "A Lion rampant regardant, the tail reverberant or beaten back, or reboundant, as having beaten it to his back, and it hath rebounded again from thence."
- "His snoring was reverberant."
- "beneath the reverberant branches"
Etymology
From Middle French reverberant (present participle of reverberer), or directly from Latin reverberāns (present participle of reverberō); compare French réverbérant, Italian riverberante, Portuguese reverberante, and Spanish reverberante.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ɹəˈvɝbəɹənt/
- British English: /ɹɪˈvɜːbəɹənt/
Inflected Forms
more reverberant (comparative)
most reverberant (superlative)