Phonetic

a.	1.	Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.
	2.	Representing sounds; as, phonetic characters; - opposed to ideographic; as, a phonetic notation. Phonetic spelling spelling in phonetic characters, each representing one sound only; - contrasted with Romanic spelling, or that by the use of the Roman alphabet.

Adj.	1.	phonetic - of or relating to speech sounds; "phonetic transcription" Synonyms: phonic
	2.	phonetic - of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds; "phonetic analysis"

accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, arrowhead, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, character, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, cuneiform, demotic character, dental, descriptive, determinative, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, glottochronological, grammalogue, grammatic, graphemic, guttural, hard, heavy, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph, hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, high, hiragana, ideogram, ideograph, intonated, kana, katakana, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical, light, lingual, linguistic, liquid, logogram, logograph, low, metalinguistic, mid, monophthongal, morphological, morphophonemic, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, ogham, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, philological, phonemic, phonetic symbol, phonic, phonological, pictogram, pictograph, pitch, pitched, posttonic, psycholinguistic, radical, retroflex, rounded, rune, semantic, semivowel, shorthand, soft, sonant, stopped, stressed, strong, structural, surd, syllabic, syntactic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wedge, wide, word letter

Definitions Index: # A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

About this site and copyright information - Online Dictionary Home - Privacy Policy