Adjective

(en adjective)

Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.

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Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse.

* Addison

The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarity of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression.

* E. Everett

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.

Wordy or grandiloquent.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Flowing like .

Sweet, smooth and musical; pleasant to hear (generally used of a person's voice, tone or writing style).

* 1915 , ":

"You should read Spanish," he said. "It is a noble tongue. It has not the mellifluousness of Italian, Italian is the language of tenors and organ-grinders, but it has grandeur: it does not ripple like a brook in a garden, but it surges tumultuous like a mighty river in flood."