Consonant

What do we mean by consonant?

Being in agreement or accord. adjective

Corresponding or alike in sound, as words or syllables. adjective

Harmonious in sound or tone. adjective

A speech sound produced by a partial or complete obstruction of the air stream by any of various constrictions of the speech organs, such as (p), (f), (r), (w), and (h). noun

A letter or character representing such a speech sound. noun

Sounding together; agreeing in sound; specifically, in music, having an agreeable and complete or final effect: said of a combination of sounds.

Having or emitting like sounds.

Harmonious; agreeing; congruous; consistent: followed generally by to, sometimes by with: as, this rule is consonant to Scripture and reason.

Attrib. use of noun. Consisting of or relating to consonants; consonantal.

An alphabetic element other than a vowel; one of the closer, less resonant and continuable, of the sounds making up a spoken alphabet; an articulate utterance which is combined, to form a syllable, with another opener utterance called a vowel. noun

Having agreement; congruous; consistent; according; -- usually followed by with or to. adjective

Having like sounds. adjective

Harmonizing together; accordant. adjective

Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants. adjective

An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound. noun

A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel. noun

A letter representing the sound of a consonant. noun

Characterized by harmony or agreement. adjective

A speech sound that is not a vowel noun

Involving or characterized by harmony adjective

A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.

A letter representing the sound of a consonant.

Words that are spelled similarly to consonant:
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Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word consonant:
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Adjectives that are often used to describe consonant:
final, initial, single, nasal, first, double, voiceless, second, last, medial, labial, intervocalic, palatal, unvoiced, palatalized, dental, third, middle, syllabic, fricative, soft, plosive, geminate, conjunct, oral, adjacent, silent, coronal, postvocalic, weak, radical, terminal, extra, explosive, geminated, epenthetic, sonorant, corresponding, mute, alveolar, emphatic, bilabial, prenasalized, liquid, glottalized, lateral, thematic, aspirated, guttural, extrasyllabic, homorganic, prevocalic, underlying, retroflex, latent, velar, penultimate, syllable, vocalic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective consonant:
sounds, clusters, sound, cluster, blends, phonemes, vowel, intervals, system, combinations, letters, deletion, production, sequences, groups, digraphs, letter, harmony, shift, changes, blend, articulation, symbols, chords, change, syllables, elements, systems, stems, interval, errors, gradation, group, reduction, perception, length, types, inventory, signs, chord, sequence, recognition, substitution, mutation, pairs, combination, gemination, phoneme, simplification, alternation, voicing, contrasts, segments, duration, patterns, alternations, digraph, symbol, identification, environment, doubling, stem, triads, chart, strings, substitutions, cognitions, discrimination, pattern, harmonies, tones, rule, confusions, trigrams, assimilation, inventories, shifts, graphemes, sign, articulations.

Words that sound like consonant:
consonant, consonants, consonent, consonate, consonat, continent, consummate, consonance, kontinent, consentient, consentant, constant, condiment, consignment, concent, consequent, constante, canzonet, continents, concealment, consulate, consonantal, concernment, comonent, kinnunen, consulat, consented, consenting, consent, concision, constint, councilman, concinnity, consigning, canescent, continente, countenanced, consension, consilient, cassinette, concentrate, consumption, component, covenant, communist, consultant, convent, condiments, consumate, casement, commandant, constants, continence, consolate, consomme, canaanite, componant, consternate, kinnamon, kinnaman, consonant rhyme, conscient, cantonment, commonest, consignments, consequents, convenance, king salmon, kommandant, canonist, common nouns, conscienced.