- Strong and deep in tone; resounding: a resonant voice.
- Having a lasting presence or effect; enduring: "Cranmer compiled the first Book of Common Prayer, writing some of the most resonant phrases in the English tongue" (Allen D. Boyer).
- Strongly reminiscent; evocative: a monument that is resonant of the nation's past glory.
- Producing or exhibiting resonance: resonant frequency excitation.
- Resulting from or as if from resonance: resonant amplification.
Linguistics. A sonorant.
[Latin resonāns, resonant-, present participle of resonāre, to resound. See resound.]
resonantly res'o·nant·ly adv.




