adj
Meaning 1
Causing obstruction; blocking up.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- an obstruent medicine
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: hindering
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
obstruent
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈɒbstɹuːənt/
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noun
Meaning 2
A consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway, causing turbulence; a plosive, fricative, or affricate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: sonorant
Broader terms: consonant
noun
Meaning 3
Anything that obstructs, especially in the passages of the body.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 4
a consonant that is produced with a partial or complete blockage of the airflow from the lungs through the nose or mouth
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: consonant
Narrower terms: stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive, continuant consonant, continuant, affricate, affricate consonant, affricative
History
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin obstruēns, obstruentis.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Mandarin: 阻音 (zǔyīn) — consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway
- German: Obstruent — consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway
- German: Geräuschlaut — consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway
- Greek: φρακτικό (fraktikó) — consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway
- Hungarian: obstruens — consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway
- Hungarian: zörejhang — consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway
- Japanese: 阻害音 (sogaion) — consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway
- Portuguese: obstruinte — consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway
- Portuguese: consoante obstruente — consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway
- Russian: смы́чный (smýčnyj) — consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway
- Slovene: nezvočnik — consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway
- Swedish: obstruent — consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway
- Vietnamese: âm ồn — consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway