phonetic
phonetic is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Representing sounds; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed to ideographic; as, a phonetic notation. Phonetic spelling, spelling in phonetic characters, each representing one sound only; -- contrasted with Romanic spelling, or that by the use of the Roman alphabet.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abecedarian
- abecedary
- accent
- acoustics
- affix
- alphabet
- alphabetical
- anagram
- anagrammatism
- and
- aspirate
- audibility
- audible
- breathing
- cadence
- character
- christcross-row
- cipher
- consonant
- dental
- diacoustics
- diaphonics
- digraph
- diphthong
- dissyllable
- distinct
- emit
- give
- guttural
- hieroglyphic
- ideogram
- ideograph
- intonation
- labial
- letter
- liquid
- literal
- majuscule
- make
- metagrammatism
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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