ECHOES Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

echoes 1 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of echo

as in sounds

to continue or be repeated in a series of reflected sound waves my calls for help echoed off the walls of the abandoned mine shaft

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as in repeats

to say after another the little brats sassed the babysitter by echoing in a singsong voice everything she said

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echoes

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noun

variants also echos

plural of echo

as in followers

a person who adopts the appearance or behavior of another especially in an obvious way a younger sister who was her echo all the while that they were growing up

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as in traces

a tiny often physical indication of something lost or vanished a few stone carvings are the only echoes that remain of a once-mighty civilization

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Recent Examples of echoes

Noun

Unlike Diller’s, hers was laid-back and authoritative, with echoes of Miranda Priestly (another stylish doyenne with a beleaguered protégée). —

Michael Schulman, New Yorker, 29 May 2026 There are the faintest echoes of Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre in the Yorkshire Moors setting. —

David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 22 May 2026 The clip, which included background noise and echoes, covered the last 30 seconds of the flight as the pilots struggled with the disabled aircraft as well as recordings of testing the NTSB did on another aircraft. —

Alexandra Skores, CNN Money, 22 May 2026 In this framework, meaning is not immediate but unfolds gradually, arriving through echoes, returns, and interruptions. —

Joanne Shurvell, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026 The echoes between the current Ebola outbreak and the 2014 outbreak—the deadliest-ever Ebola crisis—are hard to ignore. —

Stephanie Psaki, The Atlantic, 22 May 2026 The technique, which works by bouncing signals onto qubits and effectively listening for their echoes, runs 13,000 times faster on Willow than an equivalent algorithm would on the best classical supercomputer. —

Zeeya Merali, Scientific American, 19 May 2026 Outsmarting the noise Many animals rely on echolocation — emitting sound waves and interpreting the returning echoes — to navigate and hunt. —

Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 19 May 2026 There were echoes of that everywhere on Saturday. —

Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026

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Verb

If this problem sounds familiar to you, consider opting for a travel tote bag instead.

— Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 3 June 2026
Well, that sounds a lot like a description of DeLauter’s at-bats, too.

— Zack Meisel, New York Times, 3 June 2026