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
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
Words barely comprehended, a panoply of percussive sounds and the reverberant electronic ambience all contributed to producing an uncanny sensation of being in the remove of nature.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2022
The peculiar young man hesitated, then commenced to hum once more, his voice as deep and reverberant as before.
From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman
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