Sonorous

a.	1.	Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.
	2.	Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice.
	3.	Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous.
	4.	Impressive in sound; high-sounding. The Italian opera, amidst all the meanness and familiarty of the thoughts, has something beautiful and sonorous in the expression. - Addison. 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. - E. Everett.
	5.	(Med.) Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep-toned; as, sonorous rhonchi. Sonorous figures (Physics) figures formed by the vibrations of a substance capable of emitting a musical tone, as when the bow of a violin is drawn along the edge of a piece of glass or metal on which sand is strewed, and the sand arranges itself in figures according to the musical tone. Called also acoustic figures. Sonorous tumor (Med.) a tumor which emits a clear, resonant sound on percussion.

Adj.

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sonorous - full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice" Synonyms: heavy

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