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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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adj
characterized by sound symbolism
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences
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Synonyms: expressive, ideophonic, imitative, mimological, phonaesthetic, phonosemantic
Antonyms: none provided
adj
characterized by sound symbolism
(of a unit of sound or meaning such as a word, morpheme, phoneme, syllable, etc.) composed of speech sounds that are not arbitrary but also not overtly onomatopoeic
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: not-comparable
Qualifier: more specifically
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonology, sciences
Synonyms: expressive, ideophonic, imitative, mimological, phonaesthetic, phonosemantic
Antonyms: none provided
History
From sound symbolism + -ic.
