Definition of onomatopoeic in English:
onomatopoeic
adjective ˌɒnə(ʊ)matəˈpiːɪk
Using or relating to onomatopoeia.
onomatopoeic words like ‘bang’ and ‘coo’
Example sentencesExamples
- In the silent film, allied to the onomatopoeic imitation of sound was the expectation of sound where there was none.
- He is the most onomatopoeic of the leading poets, able to imitate the sounds of everything from bird calls to the eerie noise of cracking ice.
- The onomatopoeic tune that resulted was hilarious, but the implication that in a digital universe all correspondences are known in advance was rather disturbing.
- Often it stems from his words, which, as in a misspelled grocery sign or an onomatopoeic utterance, appear both everyday and incorrect.
- Genre names don't get more onomatopoeic than crunk.
Derivatives
adverb
And don't forget Harley-Davidson motorcycle riders can onomatopoeically describe their bikes at idle by uttering potatopotatopotatopotato.
Example sentencesExamples
- No doubt because bang is perceived to be onomatopoeically imitating the sound that it designates, the word also functions as an ideophone.
- In ‘The Ox Pull’ these methods serve onomatopoeically.
- The first, the Xuezhai Qiao, is five minutes from the bus station by the two-stroke tricycle taxis the Chinese name onomatopoeically bengbengche.
Rhymes
logorrhoeic (US logorrheic), mythopoeic