1.
[syn: stop consonant, stop, occlusive, plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. tending to occlude;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
occlusive
adj 1: tending to occlude
n 1: a consonant produced by stopping the flow of air at some
point and suddenly releasing it; "his stop consonants are
too aspirated" [syn: stop consonant, stop, occlusive,
plosive consonant, plosive speech sound, plosive]
[ant: continuant, continuant consonant]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
108 Moby Thesaurus words for "occlusive":
accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental,
articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad,
cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, choking, close, consonant,
consonantal, constrictive, continuant, contrary, counterproductive,
crosswise, dental, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide,
glossal, glottal, guttural, hard, heavy, high, hindering,
hindersome, in the way, inhibiting, inhibitive, interrupting,
interruptive, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral,
lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted,
narrow, nasal, nasalized, obstructing, obstructive, obstruent,
open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized,
phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, repressive,
restrictive, retroflex, rounded, semivowel, soft, sonant, stifling,
stopped, strangling, stressed, strong, suppressive, surd, syllabic,
tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, troublesome, twangy,
unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced,
voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide