The Collaborative International Dictionary
Onomatopoeic \On`o*mat`o*p[oe]"ic\, a.
Onomatopoetic.
--Whitney.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1860, from French onomatopoéique or else from onomatopoeia + -ic.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or relating to onomatopoeia. 2 Having the property of onomatopoeia.
a. (alt form of onomatopoeic English)
WordNet
adj. of or relating to or characterized by onomatopoeia [syn: onomatopoetic]
(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: echoic, imitative, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic] [ant: nonechoic]
Usage examples of "onomatopoeic".
Carialle said, monitoring as the IT program recorded the correct uses of the verb, and postulated forms and suffixes for other verbs in its file, shuffling the onomatopoeic transliterations down like cards.
Bawu they had known in the flesh, Sir Ralph Ballantyne only as a legend: Taka Taka was the onomatopoeic name the Matabele had given Sir Ralph from the sound of the Maxim machine-gun which the old freebooter had wielded to such effect during the.
And he would have chosen it instinctively--for onomatopoeic reasons--because it hums and drones and murmurs dreamily.
Many of the traditional onomatopoeic expressions expanded to make room for new associations.
And an especially interesting feature to me now is the onomatopoeic value of certain words.
Though no word can reproduce an actual sound, you can sometimes imitate a sound by substituting an onomatopoeic word for a more general word.
But it is probably also somewhat onomatopoeic, imitating someone who speaks in an incomprehensible tongue.
Bawu they had known in the flesh, Sir Ralph Ballantyne only as a legend: Taka Taka was the onomatopoeic name the Matabele had given Sir Ralph from the sound of the Maxim machine-gun which the old freebooter had wielded to such effect during the Matabele war and the rebellion.