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[ adjective ] appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms
Synonyms Examples "left their clothes dirty looking" "a most disagreeable looking character" "angry-looking" "liquid-looking" "severe-looking policemen on noble horses" "fine-sounding phrases" Used in print (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)Thus he may be referring to some concrete thing , or incident , in his immediate environment by some symbolic sounding , hyperbolic reference to transcendental events on the global scene . (Dell Shannon, The Ace of Spades....)To be Katharine_Ross , and work in a nicer shop somewhere , at a_little more money so she could have prettier clothes , and learn ladies ' manners and all like that , and get to know different people than up_to_now , not just the ones like her here , with foreign sounding names , the ones went_to the same church and - Different place , different job , different people , she 'd be all different too . Related terms |
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[ adjective ] having volume or depth
Examples "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal" "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"- Wordsworth Related terms |
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[ adjective ] making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form
Examples "harsh-sounding" Related terms |
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[ noun ] the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
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