sounding English

Meaning sounding meaning

What does sounding mean?

sounding

— adjective (= looking) appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms left their clothes dirty looking a most disagreeable looking character angry-looking liquid-looking severe-looking policemen on noble horses fine-sounding phrases taken in by high-sounding talk

— adjective having volume or deepness sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion — Wordsworth

— adjective making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form harsh-sounding

— noun a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line

— noun the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)

Synonyms sounding synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as sounding?

sounding English » English

roaring

sound

sonorous

resonant

noisy

echoing

sounded

ringing

probing

probe

murmuring

making a sound

making a noise

looking

whizzing through the air

vociferous

vocal

upper-air sounding

upper-air observation

tinkling

tapping

stylet

strident

stormy

spy

spot sounding

sounder

sound production

sonorant

sonance

shout

screaming

rustling

reverberative

reverberating

reechoing

reconnaissance

rapping

poll

plumbism

plumbing

plangent

noise

mourning

making noise

making noice

loud-voiced

loud roar

loud

lead

Topics sounding topics

What do people use sounding to talk about?

Person Sense, perceive Hear

Sound

• What words indicate that something sounds like another thing or sounds a particular way?
  sound like sound of sound (good/bad) have a (good/bad) sound (good/bad) sounding

States Big Distance

Deep, shallow

• What words refer to measuring how deep something is?
  take a sounding plumb