Hypertext Webster Gateway: "onomatopoetic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Onomatopoetic \On`o*mat`o*po*et"ic\, a.
Of or pertaining to onomatop[oe]ia; characterized by
onomatop[oe]ia; imitative; as, an onomatopoetic writer or
word. --Earle.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
onomatopoetic
adj 1: of or relating to or characterized by onomatopoeia [syn: {onomatopoeic}]
2: (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound;
"onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was
independently developed in more than one place as an
onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer [syn: {echoic}, {imitative},
{onomatopoeic}, {onomatopoeical}] [ant: {nonechoic}]
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