Synonyms for sounding
ˈsaʊn dɪŋsound·ing

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1. soundingnoun

   a measure of the depth of water taken with a sounding line

   Antonyms:
   thin, profound, unhearable, inaudible

2. soundingadjective

   the act of measuring depth of water (usually with a sounding line)

   Antonyms:
   inaudible, thin, unhearable, profound

3. looking, soundingadjective

   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"

   Synonyms:
   looking

   Antonyms:
   thin, profound, unhearable, inaudible

4. soundingadjective

   having volume or deepness

   "sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal"; "the sounding cataract haunted me like a passion"- Wordsworth

   Synonyms:
   looking

   Antonyms:
   profound, unhearable, inaudible, thin

5. soundingadjective

   making or having a sound as specified; used as a combining form

   "harsh-sounding"

   Synonyms:
   looking

   Antonyms:
   thin, profound, inaudible, unhearable

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1. • Depth

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1. soundingadjective

   Synonyms:
   sonorous, resonant, sonant

2. soundingnoun

   Synonyms:
   bathymetry, examination, proclamation, resonance, reverberation

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1. List of paraphrases for "sounding":

   radiosonde, probe, ringing, probing

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1. Max Lucado, "And the Angels were Silent the Final Week of Jesus":

   The journey to the cross began long before. As the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still sounding in the garden, Jesus was leaving for Calvary.

2. Neil Datta:

   Veteran WCF critics frame World Congress of Families as being in favor of family and life and religious freedom, but really what Veteran WCF critics mean is simply different ways of restricting peoples human rights, instead of talking about religious values, Veteran WCF critics've taken the same idea but have put it through a secularizing washing machine so it comes out sounding like modern human rights language.

3. Eddie Salmeron:

   — when Eddie Salmeron bait alarm started sounding. I set the hook, and that was when the whole fight began, my forearms started feeling it, my back started feeling it, my biceps felt everything. It was just — it was the longest 10 minutes of my life.

4. Gail Whiteman:

   This is a crisis and the Arctic is sounding the alarm. It is time that world leaders come together to create real change that ensures a safe future for humanity.

5. James A. Forude:

   History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.