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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Resonant \Res"o*nant\ (-nant), adjective [L. resonans, p. pr. of resonare to resound: cf. F. r['e]sonnant. See {Resound}.]
1. Returning, or capable of returning, sound; fitted to resound; resounding; echoing back.
Through every hour of the golden morning, the streets were resonant with female parties of young and old. --De Quincey.
2. (Elec.) Adjusted as to dimensions (as an electric circuit) so that currents or electric surgings are produced by the passage of electric waves of a given frequency. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
resonant
adjective
1: inducing resonance; "resonant frequency"
2: characterized by reverberation; "a resonant voice"; "hear the rolling thunder" [syn: {resonating}, {resounding}, {reverberating}, {reverberative}, {rolling}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
55 Moby Thesaurus words for "resonant": beating, booming, consonant, deep, earsplitting, electrifying, enhanced, fat, fluctuant, fluctuating, fluctuational, full, harmonic, heightened, intensified, libratory, loud, mellow, noisy, nutational, orotund, oscillating, oscillatory, pendular, pendulous, periodic, plangent, powerful, profound, pulsating, pulsing, resonating, resounding, reverberant, reverberating, rich, ringing, rolling, rotund, round, sonorous, sounding, stentorian, strident, thrilling, throbbing, thundering, thunderous, vacillating, vacillatory, vibrant, vibratile, vibrating, vibratory, wavering
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