1. of, relating to, or involving paronomasia; characterized by a play on words, especially through the use of words that sound alike but have different meanings.
Usage: literary or rhetorical term; formal register

Examples

• The poet's paronomastic style delighted readers with clever sound-alike phrases.
• His paronomastic wit made the speech memorable, though some found it overly clever.
• The advertisement used paronomastic language to make the brand name stick in consumers' minds.
• Medieval writers often employed paronomastic techniques to create mnemonic devices.
• The paronomastic pun on 'knight' and 'night' appeared throughout the medieval romance.