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.

---

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

---

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

For, if physical and mental processes are everywhere consubstantial, or identical in kind, it can make no difference whether we regard their sequences as objective or ejective, physical or spiritual.

From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John

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 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 Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William

Yet, that the world, under the theory of Monism, is at least as susceptible of an ejective as it is of an objective interpretation, I trust that I have now been able to show.

From Mind and Motion and Monism by Romanes, George John