Adjective: onomatopoeial
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more onomatopoeial |
| Superlative | most onomatopoeial |
Sample Sentences
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But the technique of such work is irreproachable; the onomatopoeial sense of sound is most discriminative. [1880, “New Poems by John Payne (Newman & Co.)”, in The Academy and Literature, volume 17, London: Academy Publishing Company, page 153:]
Adjectives inflected like onomatopoeial
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From onomatopoeia + -al.