Meaning of onomatopoietically | Babel Free
Definitions
Adverb. [C2]
Examples
“He goes right on to prove it onomatopoietically by letting the strong- voiced or-sound appear five times in this one distich!”
“The sound image series, however, may also function nonverbally, and, for instance, onomatopoietically, if the sibilants in 'Sun passes' are a snake's (temptation).”
“With Dumque dolet, Ovid makes a transition from the direct speech to the description of the gesture of mourning: the ripping of the robe as well as the beating of the breast, which is onomatopoietically underlined through the alliteration percussit pectora palmis.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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