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say it: SOWN-ding
sounding is an adjective and noun meaning "appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms". It carries 5 recorded senses.
appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms
“left their clothes dirty looking”
“a most disagreeable looking character”
“angry-looking”
“liquid-looking”
“severe-looking policemen on noble horses”
“fine-sounding phrases”
“taken in by high-sounding talk”
having volume or deepness
“sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal”
“the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion”
a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sounding come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.