Definitions for echoic

Overview of adj echoic

The adj echoic has 2 senses? (no senses from tagged texts)

1. echoic, imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic

((of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound; "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer)

2. echoic, echolike

(like or characteristic of an echo)