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Meanings of onomatopoetic in English
Portuguese
onomatopaico (Of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound.
Related terms
Synonyms
Examples for "imitative"
Examples for "imitative"
1
There are two great schools of art; the imitative and the imaginative.
2
The sentiment of the white village was overpowering among the imitative negroes.
3
The imitative arts do not exist, or are in their lowest state.
4
Their suicide attempts appear in the spirit of imitative or experimental play.
5
Words in their first formation were doubtless constituted by their imitative power.
1
THE French word doucement has an onomatopoeic sensuality that is entirely absent from any English synonym.
2
Historical note: There are a couple of onomatopoeic myths circulating about the origin of this term.
3
And he would have chosen it instinctively-foronomatopoeic reasons-becauseit hums and drones and murmurs dreamily.
4
Note some of the most effective onomatopoeic passages.
5
Of course, calling it a vaguely onomatopoeic Smooff makes everything else seem like a bastion of sensible, mature branding.
1
However, in category III, all tumors were detected as low-echoic by B-mode ultrasonography.
2
One tumor showed a hyper-echoic pattern which grew very rapidly.
3
The shadow felt Jedi Masters stride the vast echoic emptiness of the vaulted halls outside.
4
It is an echoic city, filled with shadows.
5
Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) examination showed an encapsulated cystic lesion with relatively homogenous and highly echoic contents.
Usage of onomatopoetic in English
1
Note the onomatopoetic effect of the rhythm.
2
Notice for example the onomatopoetic effect in 13, 7 and 8:
3
A crude translation of the words, lacking entirely the onomatopoetic quality of the original goes something like this:
4
SIRRT, an onomatopoetic word coined by the poet to imitate the sound of the scythe cutting through the grain.
5
Its name, like that of the minminzemi, is onomatopoetic; but in Izumo the sounds of its chant are given thus:
6
Even true onomatopoetic words like "bang" or "crack" derive, I suspect, most of their specific quality from their meaning.
7
About a year later came "The Bells," wonderful for the music of its verse, and the finest onomatopoetic poem in the language.
Frequent collocations
Onomatopoetic through the time