echoic

adj.	1.	(linguistics) Formed in imitation of a natural sound; - of words. Contrasted to nonechoic.
	2.	Like or characteristic of an echo.

Adj.	1.	echoic - (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound; "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer Synonyms: onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic, imitative, onomatopoeic Antonyms: nonechoic - not echoic or imitative of sound
	2.	echoic - like or characteristic of an echo Synonyms: echolike

answering, antiphonal, apish, battological, booming, confutative, conjugate, delineatory, depictive, derivative, duplicative, echoing, embodying, emulative, etymologic, figurative, graphic, growling, ideographic, illustrational, illustrative, imitative, incarnating, iterative, lexical, lexicographic, lexicologic, lexigraphic, limning, lingering, mimetic, mimic, mimish, onomastic, onomatologic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoetic, paronymic, paronymous, parrotlike, persistent, personifying, pictographic, pictorial, portraying, reboant, rebounding, recapitulative, redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, refutative, reiterant, reiterative, rejoining, repeating, repercussive, repetitional, repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive, replying, representational, representative, representing, resounding, respondent, responding, responsive, returning, reverberant, reverberating, reverberatory, rumbling, simulative, sounding, symbolizing, tautological, tautologous, thundering, typifying, undamped, vivid

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