KNELLS Synonyms: 63 Similar and Opposite Words

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verb

present tense third-person singular of knell

as in rings

to make the clear sound heard when metal vibrates the church bells knelled to mark the death of the nation's beloved leader

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noun

plural of knell

as in chimes

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as in indicators

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The comeback saga rings ever so true for those in the movie theater industry, and for those millions of moviegoers who love to watch dazzling images on the huge silver screens of theaters.

— Adam Aron, Variety, 29 July 2026
An old folk verse prices a simple life at two riyals for beans and one for bread — only half of that tune still rings true.

— Manal Albarakati, semafor.com, 29 July 2026

Definition of rings

Noun

Skip fake florals, door bows, and chimes, which can look cheap or annoy neighbors.

— Sarah Lyon, The Spruce, 23 June 2026
As is Takal, clearly having fun with the film’s queasy, lurching atmospherics, abetted by the sparse, shivery, atonal chimes of Jonathan Goldsmith’s score, and the floating, disembodied feel of Robert Leitzell’s camerawork.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 13 June 2026

Definition of chimes

Noun

Together, the capex commitments, power demand projections, physical bottlenecks, and input price inflation are the indicators of the installation phase.

— Nili Gilbert, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
Moving envelope indicators and Bollinger Bands show long positions struggling, while the MACD, RSI, and major long-term moving averages display explicitly bearish momentum profiles.

— Michael Khouw, CNBC, 20 July 2026

Definition of indicators

Noun

The soundtrack—by the frequent Hans Zimmer collaborator David Fleming—is a delight, a polyphonic mood board of ghost-clangs, spooky bassoons, lyrical electro-motifs, and sighing sea themes.

— James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026
The album’s official versions smooth out some of the buzzy sibilance of the bootlegs, but Hold Onto Me Infinity accommodates lots of tasteful clangs and wubs.

— H.D. Angel, Pitchfork, 2 June 2026

Definition of clangs

Noun

Most dramatically, five of the bodies were hung on a highway bridge, their half-nude corpses displaying signs of torture — a macabre display that recalled the worst days of the Mexican drug wars.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026
Institutions and governments must invest long before crises unfold and continue funding past initial signs of success to ensure complete and lasting transformation.

— Jallicia Jolly, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026

Definition of signs

Noun

Drummer Jay Russell kept to stark rattles, Sam Shipstone patched in his scratchy electric guitar, and Ryan Needham needled through grumbling basslines.

— Victoria Borlando, Pitchfork, 24 July 2026
Jigs with rattles are most productive and a big, active trailer is the way to go in muddy water.

— David A. Brown, Outdoor Life, 1 July 2026

Definition of rattles

Noun

The handbook places great emphasis on disrupting drone signals through electronic warfare.

— Zita Ballinger Fletcher, Forbes.com, 30 July 2026
As firms race to adopt AI, startups that couldn’t track their own signals are bolting LLMs onto infrastructure never built to feed one.

— Henrik Landgren, Fortune, 29 July 2026

Definition of signals

Noun

Periodically a mandolin tinkles, or maybe a fiddle swoops in as if from a low-hanging cloud.

— Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2026
Roberts doesn’t offer much empathy for the poor, diseased critter other than a pause when Ben momentarily ponders his reflection in a pool as Adrian Johnston’s eerie synth-piano score tinkles.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2026

Definition of tinkles

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