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Onomatopoeic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to or characterized by onomatopoeia.  Synonym: onomatopoetic.
2.
(of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound.  Synonyms: echoic, imitative, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic.  "It was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"





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"Onomatopoeic" Quotes from Famous Books



... up he had felt puzzled. Yet 'bemused,' perhaps, is the word that Herbert Minks would have chosen for one of his poems, to describe a state of mind he, however, had never experienced himself. And he would have chosen it instinctively—for onomatopoeic reasons—because it hums and drones and murmurs dreamily. 'Puzzled' was too ...
— A Prisoner in Fairyland • Algernon Blackwood


Words linked to "Onomatopoeic" :   nonechoic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic, onomatopoeia


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