- looking, sounding - 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"
Antonym: profound (indirect, via superficial)
- sounding - having volume or depth; "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"; "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"- Wordsworth
Antonym: thin (indirect, via full)
- sounding - making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form; "harsh-sounding"
Antonyms: inaudible, unhearable (indirect, via audible)
- sounding - a measure of the depth of water taken by sounding
--1 is a kind of depth
Derived form: verb sound7 - sounding - the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
--2 is a kind of measurement, measuring, measure, mensuration
Derived form: verb sound7
- sound - appear in a certain way; "This sounds interesting"
--1 is one way to look, appear, seem
Sample sentence:
John will sound angry
- sound, go - make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'"
--2 is one way to cause to be perceived
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun sound5, noun sound4, noun sound3, noun sound1
The woods sound with many kinds of birds
- sound - give off a certain sound or sounds; "This record sounds scratchy"
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun sound3, noun sound4, noun sound2, noun sound1
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
- sound - announce by means of a sound; "sound the alarm"
--4 is one way to announce, denote
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun sound6, noun sound5, noun sound4, noun sound3, noun sound2, noun sound1
Somebody ----s something
- voice, sound, vocalize, vocalise - utter with vibrating vocal chords
--5 is one way to pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, enunciate, say
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun sound6, noun sonant1
Somebody ----s something
- sound - cause to sound; "sound the bell"; "sound a certain note"
Sample sentences:Derived forms: noun sound4, noun sound3, noun sound2, noun sound1
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- fathom, sound - measure the depth of (a body of water) with a sounding line
--7 is one way to quantify, measure
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun sound8, noun sounder1, noun sounding1, noun sounding2
Somebody ----s something
- sound, go - make a certain noise or sound; "She went `Mmmmm'"; "The gun went `bang'"