reverberant

Examples

• All

• So it's a live room, a room that's reverberant like a church or a cathedral.

• The police interview had been conducted in a reverberant room; however, the specific characteristics of the room were not known.

  Academic text (2017)

• The main street of Perugia is possibly the most reverberant open-air space we've ever played in.

  Blog text (3)

• Rather, it was soothing, honey-toned, with an appealing reverberant timbre.

  Fiction book (1992)

• Carnegie Hall's fair size, it's larger than some of the other Symphony halls, and they're a lot more reverberant than La Scala.

• Experiments in highly reverberant environments find listeners doing exactly that, using cues above 8000 Hz.

  Academic text (1999)

• The melody resides primarily in a mid- and low range, and its sonic material is heavily reverberant, so we have a low-ceilinged space with a long sweep to the back.

  Academic text (2017)

• In the cathedral, the reverberant acoustics allowed the choir's voices to resonate beautifully throughout the space.

• We recorded the vocals in a reverberant room to give the song a more spacious and echoing quality.

Synonyms

R

resounding

vsreverberant

23 4.9

Very loud and clear, or very strong and complete when talking about success

is about repeated sound reflections rather than sheer loudness or emphasis

R

resonant

vsreverberant

7 5.6

A deep clear sound that lasts for a while

stresses repeated reflections rather than depth or tonal richness

L

live

vsreverberant

• Specialized

5 7.5

Making sound echo and last longer

refers more broadly to the echoing quality or repeated sound reflections

E

echoey

vsreverberant

2 4.5

Having sounds that repeat and ring in a large empty room

highlights the general presence of repeated reflections rather than casual echoing

R

reverberative

vsreverberant

8.2

Causing sound to echo and fill a room or hall

is about spaces or sounds having many echoing reflections

R

reverberating

vsreverberant

6.3

A sound that continues as echoes, like church bells in a valley

focuses on the space or sound being full of repeated reflections

E

echoing

vsreverberant

2.7

A sound or place where noises repeat and seem louder

emphasizes the quality of multiple sound reflections in a place

R

resonating

vsreverberant

5.1

A deep, clear sound that continues or a strong effect that stays with you

focuses on multiple reflected sounds rather than sustained tonal resonance

E

echolike

vsreverberant

8.0

Sounds repeat and seem far away like an echo

covers a fuller pattern of repeated reflections across a space

Antonyms

M

muffled

40 3.7

A sound made quieter and less clear by something covering or blocking it

D

dull

15 1.6

A pain that is not sharp and not strong

How Reverberant

echoing

2.7

resonant

7 5.6

reverberant

• Specialized

1 8.0

muted

19 4.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology