Definition of "onomatopoetic" [on•o•mat•o•po•et•ic]

• Alternative spelling of onomatopoeic; concerning or characterized by onomatopoeia. (adjective)

Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License

• "The first words, we may suppose, were onomatopoetic, that is to say, vocal imitations of the objects to which they referred."
• "All I could find on "patati, patata" is that it is an onomatopoetic expression."
• "But his word choice and onomatopoetic gestures ( "Money machines, yeah, they r-r-r-ring like a mobile phone!") are unmatched in rap right now."