Learned borrowing fromLatinobstruēns, obstruentis.
obstruent (comparativemoreobstruent,superlativemostobstruent)
- Causingobstruction;blocking up.
- Synonym:hindering
anobstruent medicine
obstruent (pluralobstruents)
- (phonetics) Aconsonantsound formed byobstructing theairway, causing turbulence; aplosive,fricative, oraffricate.
- Antonym:sonorant
- Hypernym:consonant
- Hyponyms:plosive,fricative,affricate
- Coordinate term:continuant
2003, Bhadiraju Krishnamurti,The Dravidian Languages[1], Cambridge University Press,→ISBN:Lehmann (1998:77) and Steever (1998: 14, 16) consideredāytam an allophone of Tamil /y/ beforeobstruents, but there is no real evidence for this assumption.
- (medicine) Anything thatobstructs, especially in the passages of the body.
consonant sound formed by obstructing the airway
obstruent
- third-personpluralpresentindicative/subjunctive ofobstruer
obstruent
- third-personpluralfutureactiveindicative ofobstruō
