Synonyms of chiming

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adjective

as in mellifluous

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mellifluous
• echoing
• flowing
• tuneful
• harmonizing
• melodious
• musical
• blending
• melodic
• dulcet
• symphonic
• resonant
• euphonic
• euphonious
• mellifluent
• sonorous
• symphonious
• harmonious
• mellow
• rhythmic
• sweet
• canorous
• warbling
• trilling
• appealing
• rhythmical
• pleasant
• lilting
• harmonic
• quavering
• lyrical
• orchestral
• polyphonic
• lyric
• tonal
• chordal
• agreeable
• cadenced
• songful
• homophonic
• songlike
• polyphonous

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• dissonant
• discordant
• shrill
• metallic
• strident
• tuneless
• scratching
• unmusical
• inharmonious
• disharmonious
• raucous
• harsh
• squeaky
• blaring
• jarring
• raspy
• clashing
• grating
• unpleasant
• unmelodious
• disagreeable
• jangling
• clattering
• clanging
• screeching
• unpleasing
• atonal
• off-key

chiming

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verb

present participle of chime

1

as in blending

to form a pleasing relationship

the restaurant's manor-house decor chimes perfectly with the chef's traditionalist take on haute cuisine

Synonyms & Similar Words

• blending
• corresponding
• correlating
• harmonizing
• coordinating
• matching
• agreeing
• grooving
• conforming
• balancing
• consorting
• assorting
• chiming in
• meeting
• merging
• paralleling
• dovetailing
• coalescing
• fusing
• squaring
• tallying
• hanging together
• bonding
• cohering
• conjoining

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• conflicting
• colliding
• contrasting
• differing
• countering
• contradicting
• clashing
• diverging
• jarring
• offsetting
• counteracting
• canceling (out)
• negating
• cancelling (out)

2

as in ringing

to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates

the doorbell chimed just as we were sitting down to eat

Synonyms & Similar Words

• ringing
• tolling
• pealing
• jingling
• knelling
• echoing
• bonging
• tinkling
• clanging
• clinking
• plonking
• pinging
• clanking
• clashing
• resonating
• reverberating
• tingling
• plunking
• gonging
• jangling
• dinging
• chinking
• tanging
• plinking
• resounding
• ding-donging

3

as in repeating

to say or state again

TV commercial that chimes the same message over and over

Synonyms & Similar Words

• repeating
• reiterating
• echoing
• iterating
• coming again
• rehearsing
• dinning
• summarizing
• paraphrasing
• mouthing
• parroting
• rewording
• outlining
• recapitulating
• recapping
• encapsulating
• summing up
• abstracting
• reechoing
• epitomizing