resounding

comparative more resounding · superlative most resounding

1. Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant.

   Synonyms: canorous, remugient, booming, boom-boom, canorous, orotund, remugient, resonant

2. That causes reverberation.

   He suddenly gave her a resounding kiss, which embarrassed me even more than his violence had done.

   1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC

3. broadlyEmphatic, noteworthy.

   We had a resounding win against the rival team.

   2 more examples

   On this assessment, whatever one's personal criticisms, the Southern Region's booklet Want to Run a Railway? must be acknowledged a resounding success.

   1963 February, “Nobody runs this railway, mate”, in Modern Railways, page 73

   Mr. Serra has managed to coax two legendary European actors out of retirement for the production: 79-year-old Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s wife and muse, plays an exiled French duchess and notorious libertine, and 73-year-old Helmut Berger, who appeared in several of Luchino Visconti’s films, takes the role of a freethinking German duke. But despite the big names attached, “Liberté” is a resounding failure.

   2018 March 1, A. J. Goldmann, “Revolution’s the Rage in German Theaters. But Don’t Expect Utopia.”, in New York Times

   Synonyms: huge, massive, tremendous

plural resoundings

1. gerundgerund of resound

   A tense hush — similar to those intervals of electrical stillness that separate the resoundings of a thunderstorm — fell upon the room.

   2000, Harold Schechter, Nevermore, page 13

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of resound