'Phonetic' definitions:
Definition of 'phonetic'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of or relating to speech sounds; "phonetic transcription" [syn: phonetic, phonic]
adjective
Of or relating to the scientific study of speech sounds; "phonetic analysis"
Definition of 'Phonetic'
From: GCIDE
- Phonetic \Pho*net"ic\ (f[-o]*n[e^]t"[i^]k), a. [Gr. fwnhtiko`s, fr. fwnh` a sound, tone; akin to Gr. fa`nai to speak: cf. F. phon['e]tique. See Ban a proclamation.]
- 1. Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Representing sounds; as, phonetic characters; -- opposed to ideographic; as, a phonetic notation. [1913 Webster]
- Phonetic spelling, spelling in phonetic characters, each representing one sound only; -- contrasted with {Romanic spelling}, or that by the use of the Roman alphabet. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'phonetic'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accented,
- alveolar,
- apical,
- apico-alveolar,
- apico-dental,
- arrowhead,
- articulated,
- assimilated,
- back,
- barytone,
- bilabial,
- broad,
- cacuminal,
- central,
- cerebral,
- character,
- checked,
- close,
- consonant,
- consonantal,
- continuant,
- cuneiform,
- demotic character,
- dental,
- descriptive,
- determinative,
- dissimilated,
- dorsal,
- flat,
- front,
- glide,
- glossal,
- glottal,
- glottochronological,
- grammalogue,
- grammatic,
- graphemic,
- guttural,
- hard,
- heavy,
- hieratic symbol,
- hieroglyph,
- hieroglyphic,
- hieroglyphics,
- high,
- hiragana,
- ideogram,
- ideograph,
- intonated,
- kana,
- katakana,
- labial,
- labiodental,
- labiovelar,
- lateral,
- lax,
- lexicographic,
- lexicological,
- lexicostatistical,
- light,
- lingual,
- linguistic,
- liquid,
- logogram,
- logograph,
- low,
- metalinguistic,
- mid,
- monophthongal,
- morphological,
- morphophonemic,
- muted,
- narrow,
- nasal,
- nasalized,
- occlusive,
- ogham,
- open,
- oxytone,
- palatal,
- palatalized,
- pharyngeal,
- pharyngealized,
- philological,
- phonemic,
- phonetic symbol,
- phonic,
- phonological,
- pictogram,
- pictograph,
- pitch,
- pitched,
- posttonic,
- psycholinguistic,
- radical,
- retroflex,
- rounded,
- rune,
- semantic,
- semivowel,
- shorthand,
- soft,
- sonant,
- stopped,
- stressed,
- strong,
- structural,
- surd,
- syllabic,
- syntactic,
- tense,
- thick,
- throaty,
- tonal,
- tonic,
- twangy,
- unaccented,
- unrounded,
- unstressed,
- velar,
- vocalic,
- vocoid,
- voiced,
- voiceless,
- vowel,
- vowellike,
- weak,
- wedge,
- wide,
- word letter