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Answer for the clue "Resounding, like a canyon ", 6 letters:
echoic

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Word definitions for echoic in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
echoic \echoic\ adj. (linguistics) Formed in imitation of a natural sound; -- of words. Contrasted to nonechoic . Syn: imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic. Like or characteristic of an echo. Syn: echolike.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1880; see echo (n.) + -ic . A word from the OED.\n\n Onomatopoeia , in addition to its awkwardness, has neither associative nor etymological application to words imitating sounds. It means word-making or word-coining and is strictly as applicable to Comte's ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to an echo 2 imitative of a sound; onomatopoeic.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (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 ...

Usage examples of echoic.

From down the stairs came the echoic yelp of a dog, then the bang of a door.

My thoughts took on a curiously echoic quality, like a telephone line that is not properly damped at the other end.

Again the Ard-righ spoke, turning his head about so that as many might hear as possible, even in the echoic vastness of that building that could have contained many, many houses.