Consonant
['kɒns(ə)nənt] or ['kɑnsənənt]
Definition
(noun.) a speech sound that is not a vowel.
(noun.) a letter of the alphabet standing for a spoken consonant.
(adj.) involving or characterized by harmony .
Checker: Sabina--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Having agreement; congruous; consistent; according; -- usually followed by with or to.
(a.) Having like sounds.
(a.) harmonizing together; accordant; as, consonant tones, consonant chords.
(a.) Of or pertaining to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Accordant, according, harmonious, in harmony.[2]. Consistent, congruous, compatible.
n. Articulation.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CONGRUOUS_and_CONSISTENT]
Typist: Rachel
Definition
adj. consistent: suitable: harmonious.—n. an articulation which can be sounded only with a vowel: a letter of the alphabet other than a vowel.—ns. Con′sonance a state of agreement: agreement or unison of sounds: (mus.) a combination of notes which can sound together without the harshness produced by beats: concord; Con′sonancy harmony.—adj. Consonant′al.—adv. Con′sonantly.—adj. Con′sonous harmonious.
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Examples
- But the withdrawal alters the stimuli operating, and tends to make them more consonant with the needs of the organism. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This is exactly consonant to my own determinations. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Only when these three kinds of education are consonant and make for the same end, does a man tend towards his true goal. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Possibly they pronounced their consonants very hard and had rather indeterminate vowels, as is said to be still the case with tribes of South Arabia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The great defect of that instrument was the rendering of the overtones in music, and the hissing consonants in speech. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He had not even remembered that it was low-pitched, with a faint roughness on the consonants. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- It consisted at first of consonants, and the Greeks added the vowels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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