Synonyms:
looking, sounding
Meaning: appearing to be as specified; usually used as combining forms; "left their clothes dirty looking"; "a most disagreeable looking character"; "angry-looking"; "liquid-looking"; "severe-looking policemen on noble horses"; "fine-sounding phrases"; "taken in by high-sounding talk"
Usage examples
"It's not his way to be sounding his own praises.
And the revel went whirlingly on, until at length there commenced the sounding of midnight upon the clock.
He secured Arnold's keys from his room at the club and got into the house, armed with a golf-stick for sounding the walls.
When she had finished the courtroom was as still as a tomb, save for the ticking of the clock, now sounding louder than ever.
Here Hans advanced only with extreme precaution, sounding his way with his iron-pointed pole, to discover any crevasses in it.
From within the main gate drifted out the sound, becoming fainter and fainter, of other trumpets sounding the order for the opening of other gates.
It was into this going on as he was that they relapsed, and really for so long a time that the day inevitably came for a further sounding of their depths.
And never does silence hold that grim headland, but there is a continual murmur from the sounding sea and the leaves that quiver in the winds from the cave.
Practically every musical tone really consists of a combination of several tones sounding simultaneously, the combined effect upon the ear giving the impression of a single tone.
Upon the sounding of a bell the curtains are drawn back, the officiant tenses the image in silence with four double swings, and, as he ceases the choir sings the appointed antiphon."