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発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -aʊndɪŋ

形容詞

resounding (comparative more resounding, superlative most resounding)

1. Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant.

   Synonyms: canorous, remugient; see also Thesaurus:sonorous

2. That causes reverberation.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     He suddenly gave her a resounding kiss, which embarrassed me even more than his violence had done.

3. (by extension) Emphatic, noteworthy.

   Synonyms: huge, massive, tremendous

   We had a resounding win against the rival team.

   • 1963 February, “Nobody runs this railway, mate”, in Modern Railways, page 73:

     On this assessment, whatever one's personal criticisms, the Southern Region's booklet Want to Run a Railway? must be acknowledged a resounding success.

   • 2018 March 1, A. J. Goldmann, “Revolution’s the Rage in German Theaters. But Don’t Expect Utopia.”, in New York Times:

     Mr. Serra has managed to coax two legendary European actors out of retirement for the production: 79-year-old Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s wife and muse, plays an exiled French duchess and notorious libertine, and 73-year-old Helmut Berger, who appeared in several of Luchino Visconti’s films, takes the role of a freethinking German duke. But despite the big names attached, “Liberté” is a resounding failure.

派生語

• resoundingly

名詞

resounding (複数形 resoundings)

1. gerund of resound
   • 2000, Harold Schechter, Nevermore, page 13:

     A tense hush — similar to those intervals of electrical stillness that separate the resoundings of a thunderstorm — fell upon the room.

語源 2

resound +‎ -ing.

発音

• (英国用法) IPA^(key): /ˌɹiːˈsaʊnd.ɪŋ/

動詞

resounding

1. present participle and gerund of resound