echoic

1. 1.

   (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”

   Synonymsimitativeonomatopoeiconomatopoeicalonomatopoetic

   Antonymsnonechoic
2. 2.

   like or characteristic of an echo

   Synonymsecholike

   Similarreflected

Other forms of echoic

comparative

echoicer·

superlative

echoicest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about echoic

What does echoic mean?

echoic means "(of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in echoic?

echoic has 2 syllables: e-choic. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for echoic?

Close synonyms include imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic, echolike. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of echoic?

The recorded antonyms are nonechoic.

Is echoic a common word?

echoic is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.