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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
retroflex is a verb and adjective meaning "bend or turn backward". It carries 4 recorded senses.
articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate
“Indian accents can be characterized by the fact that speakers retroflex their consonants”
bent or curved backward
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for retroflex come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.