resounding
adjUK /ɹɪˈzaʊn.dɪŋ/
Etymology From resound + -ing.
1
Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant.
2
That causes reverberation.
- He suddenly gave her a resounding kiss, which embarrassed me even more than his violence had done.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
3
Broadly Emphatic, noteworthy.
- We had a resounding win against the rival team.
- On this assessment, whatever one's personal criticisms, the Southern Region's booklet Want to Run a Railway? must be acknowledged a resounding success.1963 February, “Nobody runs this railway, mate”, in Modern Railways, page 73:
1 more example
- 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.2018 March 1, A. J. Goldmann, “Revolution’s the Rage in German Theaters. But Don’t Expect Utopia.”, in New York Times:
- Derived terms
- resoundingly, resoundingness, unresounding