sounding
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(s) 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
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(s) having volume or deepness
- sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal
- "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"- Wordsworth
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(s) making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form
- harsh-sounding
Nouns
- (n) a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line
- (n) the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)