Words and phrases that have a meaning related to plosive: (150 results)
Antonyms:
continuant, continuant consonant
Often used in the same context:
glottal, onomatopoeic, assonance, sibilant, basso profundo, toneless, fricative, diphthongs, guttural, echoic, unmodulated, throatier, glottal stop, euphony, sibilance, harmon, wahs, syllabic, trebly, bass clef, arp, rrr, moderato, dyna, melismatic, glissando, unmelodic, tremolos, vowel sound, soun, adenoidal, stereophonic, fortissimo, tympani, homophonic, boop, yowl, intensifier, sostenuto, arpeggio, corde, celli, basso, scansion, nasal twang, percussively, altissimo, staccatos, awk, diminuendo, eeee, chromatic scale, coro, exclamatory, vox, polytonal, yawp, jaggedness, flanging, molto, sopranino, euphonious, chromatics, moog, pacem, ballade, toccata, rimshot, vivace, tildes, cadenced, optimus, connotative, initialism, schwa, diatonic scale, meno, beethovenian, metrically, tonguing, jit, terza rima, tympanic, semitone, portamento, nasality, pianissimo, rho, harmonic progression, phoneme, anima, reed instrument, embouchure, fugal, eee, clattery, antiphonal, tintinnabulation, backslash, gerunds, lento, polyrhythm, consonants, consonant, fricatives, nasal, plosives, obstruents, stops, nasals, continuant, stop, labial, affricate, allophone, allophones, phonemes, obstruent, vowel, vowels, bilabial, consonantal, palatalized, unaspirated, vocalic, aspirated, velar, voiceless, breathy, diphthongal, implosive, percussive, retroflex, explosive, predominant
More specific:
click, glottal catch, glottal plosive, labial stop, suction stop
Synonyms:
Also try:hard, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, stop consonant
— Nouns for plosive: consonants, sounds, sound, consonant, production, burst, articulation, release, phonemes, element, series, more...
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