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

(er)

Resembling silver in color, shiny white.

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

All the enameled race, whose silvery wing / Waves to the tepid zephyrs of the spring.

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Sprinkled or covered with silver.

Having the clear, musical tone of silver; soft and clear in sound.