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ringy

ringy

1 7.5
Sounds clear like a bell
  • adjective
  • /ˈrɪŋi/
: sonoro
  • One of the things about this drum sound, I love the ringy snare on it.

Examples

  • OK, Q is an indication of how ringy the circuit is, OK.

  • You know how ringy it makes you.

    Drugstore Cowboy (1989)

  • You watch the one with the big red eye, I'll watch the one with the ringy thingies.

    The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015)

  • All you have to do is turn off all distractions, so no little ringy dinghies on your cell phone or anything like that.

  • The ringy sound of the bell echoed through the empty hall.

  • She played a ringy note on her flute that filled the room with music.

  • The dog barked with a ringy voice that could be heard from blocks away.

Synonyms

ringed
vsringy
8 2.5

Round with a hole in the middle

also covers resonant sounds or visible circular bands in other contexts
tinkling
vsringy
4 2.7

Making short, high ringing sounds like small bells

describes general resonant quality or visible circular bands rather than bell tones
jingly
vsringy
1 4.4

A high ringing sound like small bells

leans toward general resonant quality or visible circular bands rather than bell tones
jangly
vsringy
1 8.1

A thin, harsh ringing sound like metal hitting together

denotes general resonant quality or circular bands without the metallic harshness
ring-shaped
vsringy
1 3.4

Shaped like a circle

can instead mean a resonant sound quality or visible circular bands
tinkly
vsringy
1 5.0

Making a light high ringing sound like small bells

is broader, meaning any resonant quality or visible circular bands rather than chimes
ringleted
vsringy
1 6.3

Having hair shaped into small round curls

can mean a resonant sound quality or visible circular bands, not only hair curls
ringlike
vsringy
1 3.9

Shaped like a circle with a hole in the middle

may refer to sound quality or physical circular bands rather than just shape

How Resonant

pealing
1 7.7
echoing
12 2.7
resonant
13 5.6
ringy
1 7.5
muted
24 4.0

Surface Forms

ringy positive

Morphology

ringy = ring (transparent) = ring + y

Clear formation from 'ring' + the productive adjectival suffix '-y' meaning 'having or characterized by a ringing quality or the presence of rings'.

Etymology

Ringy comes from the common word ring plus the ending -y, where ring can mean the clear sound a bell makes ('to make a clear sound') or a small round band, and -y means 'full of' or 'having'. So, ringy means 'having a ringing sound' or 'having rings', which is why we use it for sounds that echo or for things that show rings.