sounding

sounding is a 8-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: of Sound. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 14 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. present participle. of Sound
2. adjective. Making or emitting sound; hence, sonorous; as, sounding words.
3. noun. The act of one who, or that which, sounds (in any of the senses of the several verbs).
4. noun. measurement by sounding; also, the depth so ascertained.
5. noun. Any place or part of the ocean, or other water, where a sounding line will reach the bottom; -- usually in the plural.
6. noun. The sand, shells, or the like, that are brought up by the sounding lead when it has touched bottom.
7. noun. the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
8. noun. a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
9. adjective. making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form

   "harsh-sounding"

10. adjective. having volume or deepness- Wordsworth

    "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"

    "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"

11. adjective. appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms

    "left their clothes dirty looking"

    "a most disagreeable looking character"

    Synonyms: looking

Synonyms

looking

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sounding:

undoings

Common word forms

sound, soundings, soundingly, soundingness

Words from these letters

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