nasal

1. 1.

   of or in or relating to the nose

   “nasal passages”

   Synonymsrhinal
2. 2.

   sounding as if the nose were pinched

   “a whining nasal voice”

   Synonymsadenoidalpinched

   Similarhigh

Other forms of nasal

plural

nasals·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about nasal

What does nasal mean?

nasal means "a consonant produced through the nose with the mouth closed". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nasal?

nasal has 2 syllables: na-sal. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /ˈneɪzəl/.

What is another word for nasal?

Close synonyms include nasal consonant, nasal bone, os nasale, rhinal, adenoidal. 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.

Is nasal a common word?

nasal is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.