nnoun.communicationa continuant consonant produced by breath moving against a narrowing of the vocal tractSynset:fricative consonant spirant
Hypernyms:continuant continuant consonant
Inherited Hypernyms:fricative consonantcontinuant consonantobstruentconsonantphonelanguage unitpartrelationabstractionentity
Direct Hyponyms:sibilantsibilant consonant
adj satadj.allof speech sounds produced by forcing air through a constricted passage (as 'f', 's', 'z', or 'th' in both 'thin' and 'then')Synset:continuant sibilant spirant strident
Antonyms:hard
Derivationally Related Form:sibilantcontinuancesibilate
Inherited Hypernyms:fricative
Similar to:soft