-SOUNDING


Meaning of -SOUNDING in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ -saʊndɪŋ ]

-sounding combines with adjectives to indicate a quality that a word, phrase, or name seems to have.

Many literary academics simply parrot a set of impressive-sounding phrases.

...faraway places with strange-sounding names.

COMB in ADJ

see also high-sounding

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