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sonorous 音標拼音: [s'ɑnɚəs] n. 宏亮的,響亮的,堂堂的 宏亮的,響亮的,堂堂的 sonorous adj 1: full and loud and deep; " heavy sounds"; " a herald chosen for his sonorous voice" [ synonym: { heavy}, { sonorous}] Sonorous \ So* no" rous\, a. [ L. sonorus, fr. sonor, - oris, a sound, akin to sonus a sound. See { Sound}.] 1. Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Loud- sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Impressive in sound; high- sounding. [ 1913 Webster] The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarty of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression. -- Addison. [ 1913 Webster] 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. -- E. Everett. [ 1913 Webster] 5. ( Med.) Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep- toned; as, sonorous rhonchi. [ 1913 Webster] { Sonorous figures} ( Physics), figures formed by the vibrations of a substance capable of emitting a musical tone, as when the bow of a violin is drawn along the edge of a piece of glass or metal on which sand is strewed, and the sand arranges itself in figures according to the musical tone. Called also { acoustic figures}. { Sonorous tumor} ( Med.), a tumor which emits a clear, resonant sound on percussion. [ 1913 Webster] -- { So* no" rous* ly}, adv. -- { So* no" rous* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 143 Moby Thesaurus words for " sonorous": Gongoresque, Johnsonian, achingly sweet, affected, agreeable, agreeable- sounding, appealing, ariose, arioso, aureate, bedizened, big- sounding, bombastic, booming, canorous, cantabile, catchy, clangorous, clattery, consonant, convoluted, deafening, declamatory, droning, dulcet, ear- piercing, ear- rending, ear- splitting, earthshaking, elevated, euphonic, euphonious, euphonous, euphuistic, fine- toned, flamboyant, flaming, flashy, flaunting, flowery, forte, fortissimo, full, fulsome, garish, gaudy, golden, golden- tongued, golden- voiced, grandiloquent, grandiose, grandisonant, high- flowing, high- flown, high- flying, high- sounding, highfalutin, honeyed, inkhorn, labyrinthine, lexiphanic, lofty, loud, loud- sounding, loudish, lurid, magniloquent, melic, mellifluent, mellifluous, mellisonant, mellow, melodic, melodious, meretricious, monotone, monotonic, music- flowing, music- like, musical, noiseful, oratorical, orotund, ostentatious, overblown, overdone, overelaborate, overinvolved, overwrought, pealing, pedantic, piercing, plangent, pleasant, pleasant- sounding, pompous, pretentious, pulsing, rackety, resonant, resonating, resounding, rhetorical, rich, ringing, rolling, rotund, round, sensational, sensationalistic, sententious, showy, silver- toned, silver- tongued, silver- voiced, silvery, singable, songful, songlike, soniferous, sounded, sounding, stentoraphonic, stentorian, stentorious, stilted, sweet, sweet- flowing, sweet- sounding, tall, throbbing, thunderous, tonal, toneless, tonitruant, tonitruous, tortuous, tunable, tuneful, uproarious, vibrant, vibrating, window- rattling
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