continuant consonant

1. 1.

   consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract

   Synonymscontinuant

   Antonymsstop consonant

   Broaderobstruent

   Narrowerfricative consonant

Questions about continuant consonant

What does continuant consonant mean?

continuant consonant means "consonant articulated by constricting (but not closing) the vocal tract".

What is another word for continuant consonant?

Close synonyms include continuant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of continuant consonant?

The recorded antonyms are stop consonant.

Is continuant consonant a common word?

continuant consonant is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.