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echoey.

Adjective
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MEANING

Producing noticeable repetitions or lingering reflections of sound.

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  • an echoey hall
  • an echoey stairwell

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The empty stairwell was so echoey that each step seemed to follow her twice.
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Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Comparative more echoey; superlative most echoey. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: description. Commonness: moderately common.

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