resonate

CEFRC1

/ˈɹɛz.əˌneɪt/

verb

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In plain English

01
verb
To produce a deep sound or create a strong feeling.
02
verb
Extra detail
To agree or sympathise, not necessarily perfectly, usually with an emotion, an attitude, or an intellectual position.

Examples

I understand what you're saying intellectually, but it doesn't resonate with me emotionally.
Some things resonate with me, while others don’t.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Also pronounced

Deep Dive

Extra meanings

In context

The teachings of Mahatma Gandhi on non-violence and peace continue to resonate globally.
The books on top of the piano resonate when he plays certain notes.
His words resonated with the crowd.

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Because of Reddit's voting system, the visibility of content is dependent on how the content resonates with Redditors.
2013, Darin Jewell, Conrad Jones, Publish and Promote Your Ebook in a Day, page 140
“The control of women and babies has been a feature of every repressive regime on the planet,” wrote Margaret Atwood earlier this year, on why her 1985 novel The Handmaid’s Tale is resonating so forcefully in the age of Trump.
2018 January 7, Stephanie Merritt, “Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich review – fertile ground for dystopian nightmares”, in The Guardian
The Letters' account of Dolghurucki's hopeless entanglement in the politics of the imperial accession resonated with her readers, and Vigor's story becomes a minor set piece of Russian histories in the eighteenth century.
2018 June 30, Katrina O'Loughlin, Women, Writing, and Travel in the Eighteenth Century, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 110

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Borrowed from Latin resonō.