Hyper Dictionary

English Dictionary Computer Dictionary Thesaurus Dream Dictionary Medical Dictionary


Search Dictionary:  

Meaning of ECHOIC

Pronunciation:  e'kowik

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [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
  2. [adj]  like or characteristic of an echo
 
 Websites: 
 
 Synonyms: echolike, imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic, reflected
 
 Antonyms: nonechoic
 

 

 

Thesaurus Terms
 
 Related Terms: answering, antiphonal, apish, battological, booming, confutative, conjugate, delineatory, depictive, derivative, duplicative, echoing, embodying, emulative, etymologic, figurative, graphic, growling, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative, incarnating, iterative, lexical, lexicographic, lexicologic, lexigraphic, limning, lingering, mimetic, mimic, mimish, onomastic, onomatologic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, paronymic, paronymous, parrotlike, persistent, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, portraying, reboant, rebounding, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, refutative, reiterant, reiterative, rejoining, repeating, repercussive, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive, replying, representational, representative, representing, resounding, respondent, responding, responsive, returning, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory, rumbling, simulative, sounding, symbolizing, tautological, tautologous, thundering, typifying, undamped, vivid
 

 

 

 

COPYRIGHT © 2000-2003 WEBNOX CORP. HOME | ABOUT HYPERDICTIONARY