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

• ejectively adverb
• nonejective adjective
• unejective adjective

Etymology

Origin of ejective

First recorded in 1650–60; eject + -ive

Example Sentences

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 Romanes, George John

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 Meaning of Truth by James, William

On the objective aspect, the explanations furnished by reason are of necessity physical, while, on the ejective aspect, such explanations are of necessity metaphysical—or rather, let us say, hyper-physical.

From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John

But inasmuch as—religious faith apart—we are not able to verify any such ejective interpretation, we are not able to estimate its value.

From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John

It applies with equal felicity to things and persons, to the objective and to the ejective realm.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William