What's an adjective that describes its own sound
>>7973386
Best I can do is "thump"
>>7973405
Never mind, not an adjective...
>>7973407
Maybe flitteringly
morose
>>7973410
That would be an adverb, if it's even a real word.
icky
banal
bland
esoteric
onomatopoeic
>>7973386
sonorous
>>7973491
Good ones
Ballistic
Weird.
>>7973386
moist
>>7973386
A word that sounds like what it depicts is an onomatopoeia.
>>7973386
resonant
linguistic
wordy
vocal
textual
literary
short
Short is the one.
>>7973386
Soft
meta-acoustic
>>7973598
bretty good
>>7973622
Onomatopoeias are named BECAUSE of the sound.
hissy
snappish
blah
>>7973386
Superfluous
>>7973722
G ahahaha 20/10
effervescent
insurmountable
>>7973860
Lush/ it's so soft and full sound, no hard vocals
Dazzling/ idk why desu
>>7973860
Melodic
Dull
Raspy
Muffled
>>7973386
cacophony and aesthetic
Clucky
>>7973386
Floppy, sloppy, slippery. Must be many more, I reckon.
>>7974360
Just thought of three more: slick, raspy, crunchy.
>>7973386
Euphonious
Sussurrous
>>7974725
I'm no prescriptivist, but I don't think you can just slap an 'o' into 'susurrus' and have it be an adjective.
>>7973386
LOUD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autological_word
>>7973386
Squishy
>>7974735
>i'm not racist, but
loooooooooooong
>>7973386
Bubbly.
>>7973386
Crisp
Niggers
>>7975036
Oh wait, you said sound.
Tinny and woody
http://youtu.be/-gwXJsWHupg
I think it was Saussure who suggested that all words come from an archaic version of their own sound.
>>7976190
What about words for things that don't make a sound?
>>7976219
Everything makes a sound if you smash it hard enough. :3
>>7976190
Like the letters "gl" seem to intrinsically mean something shiny, hence all the words that start with gl and mean shiny: glitter, gleam, glamorous, glisten, glow?
>>7973405
It was thumpy.
Or there was a thumpiness about it.
it was onomatopoeiaish....
>>7976254
>Intrinsically mean
no. Don't encourage people to waste more lives and years of research on that shit.
murmury
soughing
rooning
sizzling
screechy
hushed
prating
whacking
whirring
squidgy
swishing
trilling
>>7973867
Probably the hard vowel sound followed by the z, which is a bold-sounding consonant
>>7973386
multisyllabic
splash?
stinky
>>7973386
dyslexic
stilted
lugubrious
