Sonorous vs Resounding - What's the difference?
sonorous | resounding |
Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.
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Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse.
* Addison
* E. Everett
Wordy or grandiloquent.
Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant
That causes reverberation
(by extension) emphatic, celebrated
As adjectives the difference between sonorous and resounding
is that sonorous is capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound while resounding is having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant.As a noun resounding is
the action of the verb to resound .As a verb resounding is
.sonorous
English
Alternative forms
* sonourous (rare)Adjective
(en adjective)- The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarity of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression.
- 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.
resounding
English
Etymology 1
.Adjective
(en adjective)- We had a resounding win against the rival team.