fricative
Meaning of fricative
noun
Any of several sounds produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality; a fricative consonant.
adjective
Produced by air flowing through a restriction in the oral cavity.
Information about fricative
Hyphenation of fricative
frica-tive
- It consists of 2 syllables and 9 chars.
- fricative is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
fricative synonyms
Meaning continuant:
continuant, sibilant, spirant, strident
Meaning fricative consonant:
Words that rhyme with fricative
Conservative, Native, Perative, Representative, abdicative, aberrative, abirritative, ablative, abnegative, abrogative, accelerative, accommodative, acculturative, accumulative, accusative, acervative, acetylative, aconative, acurative, adaptative, adequative, adjudicative, administrative, admirative, adoptative, adumbrative, adversative, advocative, affiliative, affinitative, affirmative, afformative, affricative, agglomerative, agglutinative, aggravative, aggregative, agitative, albificative, alimentative, allative, alleviative, alliterative, alterative, altercative, alternative, amalgamative, amative, ambulative, ameliorative