Adjective: echoey
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | echoier |
| Superlative | echoiest |
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more echoey |
| Superlative | most echoey |
Sample Sentences
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That nostalgic luxury is particularly obvious in the former station buffet, which still functioned as a restaurant when I was last there several years ago. Empty and echoey, it was doing brisk trade in Orient Express vintage posters, several of which now adorn my garden office walls. [2025 October 1, Vitali Vitaliev, “Life's little luxuries”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 84:]
Adjectives inflected like echoey
old-timey,
nippley,
drudgey,
tomatoey,
cringey,
dudey,
dykey,
fluey,
gamey,
wifey,
ropey,
rapey,
echoey,
pricey,
tonguey,
spikey,
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ)bor.
3. Latin ēchō
4. Medieval Latin ēccōbor.
5. Middle English eccho
6. English echo
7. English -ey
8. English echoey
9. From echo + -ey.