obstruent

Speech parts

1. obstruent - Noun

2. obstruent - Adjective

Meaning

Causing obstruction; blocking up; hindering; as, an obstruent medicine.

Anything that obstructs or closes a passage; esp., that which obstructs natural passages in the body; as, a medicine which acts as an obstruent.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

contrary loud noisy troublesome hindering choking stifling bustling suppressive crosswise repressive restrictive obstructive strangling occlusive
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Antonyms

salubrious

Hypernyms

consonant

Hyponyms

stop continuant plosive occlusive affricate affricative

Phrases with the word

obstruent consonant

Examples

In many such languages, obstruents are realized as voiced in voiced environments, such as between vowels or between a vowel and a nasal, and voiceless elsewhere, such as at the beginning or end of the word or next to another obstruent. Source: Internet

In North America, a majority of languages do not have rhotics at all and there is a wide variety of lateral sounds though most are obstruent laterals rather than liquids. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

obstructng oneself obstructor obstruency obstruent consonant obstruse obstrusive