'Guttural' definitions:
Definition of 'guttural'
From: WordNet
adjective
Like the sounds of frogs and crows; "a guttural voice"; "acres of guttural frogs" [syn: croaky, guttural]
adjective
Relating to or articulated in the throat; "the glottal stop and uvular `r' and `ch' in German `Bach' are guttural sounds"
noun
A consonant articulated in the back of the mouth or throat [syn: guttural, guttural consonant, pharyngeal, pharyngeal consonant]
Definition of 'Guttural'
From: GCIDE
- Guttural \Gut"tur*al\, a. [L. guttur throat: cf. F. gutural.] Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; relating to, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the throat. [1913 Webster]
- Children are occasionally born with guttural swellings. --W. Guthrie. [1913 Webster]
- In such a sweet, guttural accent. --Landor. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Guttural'
From: GCIDE
- Guttural \Gut"tur*al\, n. A sound formed in the throat; esp., a sound formed by the aid of the back of the tongue, much retracted, and the soft palate; also, a letter representing such a sound. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'guttural'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accented,
- allophone,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- articulated,
- articulation,
- aspiration,
- assimilated,
- assimilation,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- blurred,
- brassy,
- brazen,
- breathy,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- check,
- checked,
- choked,
- choking,
- close,
- coarse,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- cracked,
- croaking,
- croaky,
- dental,
- diphthong,
- dissimilated,
- dissimilation,
- dorsal,
- drawling,
- drawly,
- dry,
- dysphonic,
- epenthetic vowel,
- explosive,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottalization,
- gruff,
- hard,
- harsh,
- harsh-sounding,
- hawking,
- heavy,
- high,
- hoarse,
- husky,
- inarticulate,
- indistinct,
- intonated,
- labial,
- labialization,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- laryngeal,
- lateral,
- lax,
- light,
- lingual,
- liquid,
- lisping,
- low,
- manner of articulation,
- metallic,
- mid,
- mispronounced,
- modification,
- monophthong,
- monophthongal,
- morphophoneme,
- mute,
- muted,
- muzzy,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- open,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- parasitic vowel,
- peak,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealization,
- pharyngealized,
- phone,
- phoneme,
- phonemic,
- phonetic,
- phonic,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- plosive,
- posttonic,
- prothetic vowel,
- quavering,
- ragged,
- raucid,
- raucous,
- retroflex,
- rough,
- rounded,
- roupy,
- rude,
- segmental phoneme,
- semivowel,
- shaking,
- shaky,
- snuffling,
- soft,
- sonant,
- sonority,
- speech sound,
- squawking,
- squawky,
- stertorous,
- stifled,
- stop,
- stopped,
- strangled,
- stressed,
- strong,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syllabic nucleus,
- syllabic peak,
- syllable,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tinny,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- transition sound,
- tremulous,
- triphthong,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- vocable,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voice,
- voiced,
- voiced sound,
- voiceless,
- voiceless sound,
- voicing,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wide