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Reverberant

adjective
1.
Having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected.  "The reverberant booms of cannon"





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"Reverberant" Quotes from Famous Books



... ordinary lifetime, into small, jagged stones that cut the feet. The crags are thunder-swept and blown by cataclysmic storms of which the dwellers in the valley have never dreamed. In the unspeakable loneliness, the pilgrim abides for ever with his mocking wreath of laurel, cheered only by a rumbling, reverberant "All Hail!" which comes, at age-long intervals, from some peak before whose infinite ...
— A Spinner in the Sun • Myrtle Reed
... they had gathered there into a vast deafening chorus; I shall never forget how—speaking, that is, for my own sense—they filled those vast halls with the influence rather of some complicated sound, diffused and reverberant, than of such visibilities as one could directly deal with. To distinguish among these, in the charged and coloured and confounding air, was difficult—it discouraged and defied; which was doubtless why ...
— A Small Boy and Others • Henry James


Words linked to "Reverberant" :   bright, tinkly, brilliant, echoing, reverberate, clinking, reechoing, resonating, reverberance, reverberative, live, vibrant, unreverberant, jingly, resonant, hollow, tinkling, jingling, reverberating, resounding


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