Noun

• (physics) Ability of a material to be drawn out longitudinally to a reduced section without fracture under the action of a tensile force.

Adjective

• Capable of giving out a deep, resonant sound.
• Full of sound and rich, as in language or verse.
• Wordy or grandiloquent.
• (linguistics, phonetics) Produced with a relatively open vocal tract and relatively little obstruction of airflow.

Synonyms

• (giving out a deep, resonant sound): booming, canorous; sonorous
• (full of sound and rich):
• (wordy, grandiloquent): prolix, sesquipedalian; verbose

Related terms

• sonorant
• sonority
• sonorously
• sonorousness

Examples

• The highlight of the hike was the sonorous cave, which produced a ringing echo from the hiker’s shouts.
• The Oath is redacted ; pronounced aloud by President Bailly, — and indeed in such a sonorous tone, that the cloud of witnesses, even outdoors, hear it, and bellow response to it.
• For this reason the Italian opera seldom sinks into a poorness of language, but, amidst all the meanness and familiarity of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression.
• He was selected to give the opening speech thanks to his imposing, sonorous voice.
• There is nothing of the artificial Johnsonian balance in his style. It is as often marked by a pregnant brevity as by a sonorous amplitude.
• Vowels are more sonorous than consonants, and so we perceive them as louder and lasting longer.