consonantal

American  

[kon-suh-nan-tl] / ˌkɒn səˈnæn tl /

Or consonantic

adjective

1. of, or of the nature of, a consonant.

2. marked by consonant sounds.

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consonantal British  

/ ˌkɒnsəˈnæntəl /

adjective

1. relating to, functioning as, or constituting a consonant, such as the semivowel w in English work

2. consisting of or characterized by consonants

   a consonantal cluster

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Other Word Forms

• consonantally adverb

Etymology

Origin of consonantal

First recorded in 1785–95; consonant + -al ¹

Example Sentences

It led to “a sort of consonantal melisma.”

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2019

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