reverberant
Americanadjective
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Etymology
Origin of reverberant
1565–75; < Latin reverberant- (stem of reverberāns ), present participle of reverberāre, equivalent to re- re- + verber ( āre ) to beat, lash (derivative of verber whip) + -ant- -ant
Example Sentences
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Prokofiev’s Shakespeare-inspired music is excerpted and heard on a recording, sometimes harshly produced on the hall’s reverberant sound system.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026
Much of it was lost to the audience, since reverberant amplification gave heroic heft to Blanchett’s voice at the cost of intelligibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 19, 2026
The researchers state that auditory stream segregation may be important both for singling out a specific speaker in a crowded environment, and for clearly understanding an individual speaker in a reverberant space.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 15, 2024
Those words wafted back as I read Simon Van Booy’s reverberant new novel, “The Presence of Absence.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 14, 2022
“All right, pal,” Finny spoke in his cordial, penetrating voice, that reverberant instrument in his chest, “don’t start awarding prizes until you’ve passed the course. The tree is waiting.”
From "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles
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