Onomatopoeic

Word ONOMATOPOEIC
Character 12
Hyphenation on o mat o pœ ic
Pronunciations /ˌɒnəmæatəˈpiːɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Onomatopoeic"

What do we mean by onomatopoeic?

Of or relating to onomatopoeia.

Having the property of onomatopoeia.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Onomatopoeic

The word "onomatopoeic" in example sentences

Building her account around key verbs, which she would both act out while she spoke and express in onomatopoeic rhythms and tones that (re) produced history even as she uttered it, Cufassane gave the impression that she was an expert potter even though she had never made a pot in her life. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The word is onomatopoeic, and he may in fact have coined it to distinguish his own impediment, for he is said to have had a kind of stammer or lisp. ❋ Benson Bobrick (1995)

Occasionally em appears as an interjection, an onomatopoeic murmur equivalent to erm or um, while in HTML it italicizes text. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What's the onomatopoeic word for the sound your footsteps make in the snow? ❋ Gordon McCabe (2009)

Since the minute the goudou-goudou the onomatopoeic name locals give to the earthquake made the ground shake and groan, more than 230,000 people have died and about 1.5 million have lost their homes in Port-au-Prince and the nearby cities of Léogâne, Jacmel and Petit-Goâve. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The development of a ball made out of celluloid was a breakthrough, and led to the onomatopoeic baptism of the game. ❋ John W. Miller (2011)

It's the Japanese onomatopoeic sound (what they hear) when you something that's soft and jiggly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But if you've ever served a low Mass in the quiet of the early dawn, "the blessed mutter of the Mass" is almost onomatopoeic. ❋ John (2009)

I came to Bud's music through Clifford Brown'sParisian Thoroughfare,an onomatopoeic rendition of a street scene of his adopted French hometown. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)

Black-crowned night-heron, Nycticorax nycticorax (protonym, Ardea Nycticorax), also known as the American/common night heron, the quawk or quark (an onomatopoeic term) or simply as the night heron, photographed at Texas City Dike, Texas (USA). ❋ Unknown (2011)

A quick investigation reveals that a similar word, pengö (an onomatopoeic term for ringing or twanging), was the unit of currency in Hungary before the forint was introduced. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Like Dickens, Ms. Rowling gives some of her secondary characters onomatopoeic names, informing us before we read another word what kind of person they are. ❋ Norman Lebrecht (2011)

Aimed at children under 5 years old, the Krtek films that followed have largely avoided spoken words, relying instead on onomatopoeic utterances such as phew, brrrr and oof, making them accessible to children around the world. ❋ Leos Rousek (2011)

THE HAITI QUAKE WAS ONE YEAR AGO TODAY - A year that began with goudou-goudou, the onomatopoeic neologism Haitians use to refer to the quake, ended with cholera on a death march across the country, a sometimes violent electoral dispute and a palpable vacuum of leadership... ❋ Eliot Nelson (2011)

Mr. WRIGHT: Its based on a graphic novel which kind of has a lot of those onomatopoeic sound effects in - within the comic book art. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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