Echoic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  echoic \echoic\ adj.
     1. (linguistics) Formed in imitation of a natural sound; --
        of words. Contrasted to {nonechoic}.
  
     Syn: imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic.
          [WordNet 1.5]


  
     2. Like or characteristic of an echo.
  
     Syn: echolike.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  echoic
       adj 1: (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 [syn: {imitative}, {onomatopoeic},
               {onomatopoeical}, {onomatopoetic}] [ant: {nonechoic}]
       2: like or characteristic of an echo [syn: {echolike}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  83 Moby Thesaurus words for "echoic":
     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