adjective
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relating to, functioning as, or constituting a consonant, such as the semivowel w in English work
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consisting of or characterized by consonants
a consonantal cluster
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of consonantal
Example Sentences
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It gave him not so much a lisp as a consonantal slurp, making gibberish out of his sweet nothings, but talking was never the main thing between them.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 20, 2014
But this is not to say that K — as U.S. headline writers shortened his rather unwieldy and consonantal name — didn’t do some sight-seeing in the Washington area.
From Washington Post
The greatest damage was in the high-frequency speech range, involving consonantal sounds, similar to the loss felt by oldsters who complain that "everybody mumbles nowadays."
From Time Magazine Archive
The writing was no longer an ambiguous syllabary mixed with logograms but an alphabet borrowed from the Phoenician consonantal alphabet and improved by the Greek invention of vowels.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
It lacks the consonantal elements, the characteristic of articulation.
From Man And His Ancestor A Study In Evolution by Morris, Charles
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