Found 3 hits - Term: echoic, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
echoic \echoic\ adj.
1. linguistics formed in imitation of a natural sound; --
of words. contrasted to nonechoic.
syn: imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic.
wordnet 1.5
2. like or characteristic of an echo.
syn: echolike.
wordnet 1.5
see also:
nonechoic
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
echoic
adj 1: of words formed in imitation of a natural sound;
"onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was
independently developed in more than one place as an
onomatopoetic term"- harry hoijer syn: imitative, onomatopoeic,
onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic ant: nonechoic
2: like or characteristic of an echo syn: echolike
see also:
imitative onomatopoeic onomatopoeical onomatopoetic nonechoic echolike
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
83 moby thesaurus words for "echoic":
answering, antiphonal, apish, battological, booming, confutative,
conjugate, delineatory, depictive, derivative, duplicative,
echoing, embodying, emulative, etymologic, figurative, graphic,
growling, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative,
incarnating, iterative, lexical, lexicographic, lexicologic,
lexigraphic, limning, lingering, mimetic, mimic, mimish, onomastic,
onomatologic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, paronymic, paronymous,
parrotlike, persistent, personifying, pictographic, pictorial,
portraying, reboant, rebounding, recapitulative, redundant,
reduplicative, reechoing, refutative, reiterant, reiterative,
rejoining, repeating, repercussive, repetitional, repetitionary,
repetitious, repetitive, replying, representational,
representative, representing, resounding, respondent, responding,
responsive, returning, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory,
rumbling, simulative, sounding, symbolizing, tautological,
tautologous, thundering, typifying, undamped, vivid
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