ejective

American  

[ih-jek-tiv] / ɪˈdʒɛk tɪv /

adjective

1. serving to eject.

2. Phonetics. (of a voiceless stop, affricate, or fricative) produced with air compressed above the closed glottis.

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noun

1. Phonetics. an ejective stop, affricate, or fricative.

ejective British  

/ ɪˈdʒɛktɪv /

adjective

1. relating to or causing ejection

2. phonetics (of a plosive or fricative consonant, as in some African languages) pronounced with a glottal stop

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noun

1. phonetics an ejective consonant

Other Word Forms

• nonejective
  adjective
• unejective
  adjective
• ejectively
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of ejective

First recorded in 1650–60; eject + -ive

Example Sentences

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ejective

At first, indeed, or during the earliest stages of culture, the ascription of ejective existence to the external world is neither vague nor general: on the contrary, it is most distinct and specific.

From Mind and Motion and Monism by George John Romanes

Call our concepts of ejective things self-transcendent or the reverse, it makes no difference, so long as we don’t differ about the nature of that exalted virtue’s fruits—fruits for us, of course, humanistic fruits.

From Essays in Radical Empiricism by William James

The ejective existence thus ascribed to society serves as a stepping-stone to the yet more vague and general ascription of such existence to the Cosmos.

From Mind and Motion and Monism by George John Romanes

So great, too, was the ejective force that the fine volcanic dust was blown up to a height of fifty thousand feet, or over nine miles, into space.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Richard Linthicum

This view of the other person as being the same in the main as the self who thinks of the other person, is what psychologists mean when they speak of the "ejective" self.

From The Story of the Mind by James Mark Baldwin