Jump to content

onomatopoietical

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

[edit]

Adjective

[edit]

onomatopoietical (comparative more onomatopoietical, superlative most onomatopoietical)

  1. Alternative form of onomatopoetic
    • 1907, The Hahnemannian Monthly - Volume 42, page 184:
      The word may be onomatopoietical for a sneezing or hacking cough, and if our object were a complete study of the Aconite Cough, it would behoove us to leave no stone unturned to learn precisely what Hahnemann meant.
    • 1968, Joseph Strelka, Yearbook of Comparative Criticism - Volume 1, page 86:
      To this phase belong imitations of sound and sound-metaphors of the different onomatopoietical types.