Not genuine; imitating something superior.
(Of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound.
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Examples for "onomatopoeic "
Examples for "onomatopoeic "
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 - for onomatopoeic 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.
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:
Marked by or given to imitation.
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.
6 Nothing is falser than to find him imitative in his representative work.
7 But this imitative tendency was tempered by the pride of Roman citizenship.
8 Unfortunately, however, this latter furnishes the chief materials of the imitative arts.
9 But then children are also imitative , and fearful of the older intellect.
10 After the first year imitative movements are more readily learned than before.
11 Further than this retrogressive and imitative movement he never seemed to go.
12 One was marching with an air imitative of some sublime drum major.
13 An involuntarily imitative man in externals was Jim, but essentially an original.
14 Here is nothing imitative or borrowed, and here are no unmeaning generalities.
15 How different was their discipleship from the imitative methods of modern literati!
16 For the same reason he was imitative in style and mode of thought.
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