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Reverberant

Reverberant \Re*ver"ber*ant\, a. [L. reverberans, p. pr. : cf. F. r['e]verb['e]rant. See Reverberate.] Having the quality of reverberation; reverberating.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reverberant

1570s, from French réverbérant or directly from Latin reverberantem (nominative reverberans), present participle of reverberare (see reverberation).

Wiktionary
reverberant

a. 1 (context heraldry of a lion’s tail English) Turned up (l en sigmoidally), with the end pointing (l en outward); (l en reboundant). 2 Tending to reverberate

WordNet
reverberant

adj. having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected; "a reverberant room"; "the reverberant booms of cannon" [syn: ringing] [ant: unreverberant]

Usage examples of "reverberant".

A particularly reverberant peal startled her, and her foot pressed the gas pedal more forcibly than she had intended.

Within the passageway, voices acquired a deeper cast, reverberant and slightly echoing.

Sparks flew as metal struck metal with a reverberant ring that echoed back and forth across the street.

Some of the dust went up his nose, whereupon he let out an impressive and reverberant sneeze that echoed throughout the otherwise silent house.

Teabing reminded, the sound of his aluminum crutches echoing in this reverberant space.

Cold, spectral blue bolts of sky fire, followed by distant reverberant thunder, as if somebody were playing ninepins with asteroids for balls and dry, forlorn planets for pins.

The result was that several thousand vehicles of varying shape and size tried to enter rather fewer controlled urban intersections at approximately the same time, resulting in a single massive reverberant whang that echoed across the entire metropolis as they smashed unhindered into one another.

Now it was at the very threshold and within it, oddly, asthough punctuating the clamour, a deep-toned, almost abysmal, boomingsound thunderously bass and reverberant.

From the swelling throat pouch of the monster behind her came a successionof the reverberant boomings.

Best of all, there were places where a note so high in pitch that it could barely be sounded descended at exhilarating pace down through the scale, and fell upon a reverberant bass note that barely had had time to ring before there came a sweet alternation of bass and treble.

The reverberant boom sounded like a loud explosion, and the shape of the drum directed soundwaves deep into the heart of the dune, into the strata of deposited sand.

When they turned onto the Pyramid Road they began to sing one of the traditional work songs, with Daoud shouting out the lines and the men echoing them in a reverberant chorus.