resounding

adj

1. Having a deep, rich sound; mellow and resonant.
2. That causes reverberation.

   “He suddenly gave her a resounding kiss, which embarrassed me even more than his violence had done.”

3. (broadly)Emphatic, noteworthy.

   “We had a resounding win against the rival team.”

   “On this assessment, whatever one's personal criticisms, the Southern Region's booklet Want to Run a Railway? must be acknowledged a resounding success.”

   “Mr. Serra has managed to coax two legendary European actors out of retirement for the production: 79-year-old Ingrid Caven, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s wife and muse, plays an exiled French duchess and notorious libertine, and 73-year-old Helmut Berger, who appeared in several of Luchino Visconti’s films, takes the role of a freethinking German duke. But despite the big names attached, “Liberté” is a resounding failure.”

noun

1. (form-of, gerund)gerund of resound

   “A tense hush — similar to those intervals of electrical stillness that separate the resoundings of a thunderstorm — fell upon the room.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of resound