sonorous
Adjective Satellite
- full and loud and deep
- "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"
Adj
- Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.
- Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse.
- Wordy or grandiloquent.
- Produced with a relatively open vocal tract and relatively little obstruction of airflow.
Adjective
- Producing or having a full, deep, or rich sound.
Examples
- He was selected to give the opening speech thanks to his imposing, sonorous voice.
- His opponent’s voice was sonorous as he announced his game-winning Words With Friends play.
- The highlight of the hike was the sonorous cave, which produced a ringing echo from the hiker’s shouts.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin sonōrus, from sonor (“sound”), early 17th century.
Synonyms
heavy, boom-boom, booming, canorous, orotund, prolix, remugient, resonant, resounding, reverberant, rotund, sesquipedalian, sonoral, sonorous, tympanic, verbose, vibrant
Antonyms
high-pitched, nonsonorous, piping, reedy, tinny, unsonorous, whistling
Scrabble Score: 8
sonorous: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsonorous: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sonorous: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary