guttural

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: gut=tur=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

guttural, 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."  [1913 Webster]
"In such a sweet, guttural accent."  [1913 Webster]

guttural, 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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

guttural, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 throaty, harsh-sounding. 2 a Phonet. (of a consonant) produced in the throat or by the back of the tongue and palate. b (of a sound) coming from the throat. c of the throat.
--n. Phonet. a guttural consonant (e.g. k, g).

Derivative

gutturally adv.

Etymology

F guttural or med.L gutturalis f. L guttur throat

THESAURUS

guttural

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

ROGET THESAURUS

guttural

Letter

N letter, character, hieroglyphic, type, capitals, digraph, trigraph, ideogram, ideograph, majuscule, minuscule, majuscule, minuscule, alphabet, ABC, abecedary, christcross-row, consonant, vowel, diphthong, triphthong, mute, liquid, labial, dental, guttural, syllable, monosyllable, dissyllable, polysyllable, affix, suffix, spelling, orthograph, phonography, phonetic spelling, anagrammatism, metagrammatism, cipher, monogram, anagram, doubleacrostic, literal, alphabetical, abecedarian, syllabic, majuscular, minuscular, uncial.

Stammering

N stammering, inarticulateness, stammering, hesitation, impediment in one's speech, titubancy, traulism, whisper, lisp, drawl, tardiloquence, nasal tone, nasal accent, twang, falsetto, broken voice, broken accents, broken sentences, brogue, slip of the tongue, lapsus linouae, stammering, inarticulate, guttural, nasal, tremulous, affected, sotto voce.