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Roget's Thesaurus

#402. Sound

Nouns

sound, noise, strain; accent, twang, intonation, tone; cadence; sonorousness etc. adj.; audibility; resonance etc. 408; voice etc. 580; aspirate; ideophone; rough breathing. [Science, of sound] acoustics; phonics, phonetics, phonology, phonography; diacoustics, diaphonics; phonetism.

Verbs

produce sound; sound, make a noise; give out sound, emit sound; resound etc. 408.

Adjectives

sounding; soniferous; sonorous, sonorific; resonant, audible, distinct; stertorous; phonetic; phonic, phonocamptic.

Phrases

a thousand trills and quivering sounds [Addison]; forensis strepitus [Lat.].


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