echoic
/ɛˈkəʊɪk
/adjective
1Of or like an echo: the echoic rooms of the old manor house...
- Their voices are filtered to sound electronically echoic.
- And at its best, its writing has the lyricism of Keats, the precision of Williams, or the echoic qualities of haiku.
- Accordingly, when encountering an ironic text such as Map's, the reader must first recognize that an ironic utterance is an echoic interpretation (literal or nonliteral) of a preceding proposition.
1.1 Linguistics Representing a sound by imitation.There are a plethora of echoic sounds which pupils may brain storm and then use those selected to write poetry....
- Like Standard English crick-crack, which represents a repeated sharp sound, the synonymous crickety-crick is echoic.
- With a little thought, one can make an astonishingly long list of imitative or echoic words.
Derivatives
echoically
- In the echoic-visual condition, samples were presented underwater behind a thin black polyethylene screen that was visually opaque but echoically transparent.
- Their ability to echoically localize multiple moving prey targets in three dimensions suggests that dolphins have a well-developed spatial representation of their acoustic environment.
Rhymes
- fittingness
- fitting room
- fitting shop
- Fittipaldi, Emerson
- fit to be tied
- fit to bust
- fit-up
- Fitzgerald, Barry
- FitzGerald contraction
- Fitzgerald, Edward
- Fitzgerald, Ella
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- FitzGerald–Lorentz contraction
- Fitzrovia
- Fitzroy
- Fiume
- five
- five a day
- five-alarm
- five-and-dime
- five-and-dime store
- five-and-ten
- five-a-side
- five-corner
- five-corners