phonetic

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: pho=net=ic

CIDE DICTIONARY

phonetic, a. [Gr. , fr. a sound, tone; akin to Gr. to speak: cf. F. phonétique. See Ban a proclamation.].

•  Of or pertaining to the voice, or its use.  [1913 Webster]
•  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.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

phonetic, adj.
1 representing vocal sounds.
2 (of a system of spelling etc.) having a direct correspondence between symbols and sounds.
3 of or relating to phonetics.

Derivative

phonetically adv. phoneticism n. phoneticist n. phoneticize v.tr. (also -ise).

Etymology

mod.L phoneticus f. Gk phonetikos f. phoneo speak

THESAURUS

phonetic

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

ROGET THESAURUS

phonetic

Voice

N voice, vocality, organ, lungs, bellows, good voice, fine voice, powerful voice, musical voice, intonation, tone of voice, vocalization, cry, strain, utterance, prolation, exclamation, ejaculation, vociferation, ecphonesis, enunciation, articulation, articulate sound, distinctness, clearness, of articulation, stage whisper, delivery, accent, accentuation, emphasis, stress, broad accent, strong accent, pure accent, native accent, foreign accent, pronunciation, homonym, orthoepy, cacoepy, euphony, gastriloquism, ventriloquism, ventriloquist, polyphonism, polyphonist, phonology, vocal, phonetic, oral, ejaculatory, articulate, distinct, stertorous, euphonious, how sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman, the organ of the soul, thy voice is a celestial melody.

Speech

N speech, faculty of speech, locution, talk, parlance, verbal intercourse, prolation, oral communication, word of mouth, parole, palaver, prattle, effusion, oration, recitation, delivery, say, speech, lecture, harangue, sermon, tirade, formal speech, peroration, speechifying, soliloquy, allocution, conversation, salutatory : screed: valedictory, oratory, elocution, eloquence, rhetoric, declamation, grandiloquence, multiloquence, burst of eloquence, facundity, flow of words, command of words, command of language, copia verborum, power of speech, gift of the gab, usus loquendi, speaker, spokesman, prolocutor, interlocutor, mouthpiece, Hermes, orator, oratrix, oratress, Demosthenes, Cicero, rhetorician, stump orator, platform orator, speechmaker, patterer, improvisatore, speaking, spoken, oral, lingual, phonetic, not written, unwritten, outspoken, eloquent, elocutionary, oratorical, rhetorical, declamatory, grandiloquent, talkative, Ciceronian, nuncupative, Tullian, orally, by word of mouth, viva voce, from the lips of, quoth he, said he, action is eloquence, pour the full tide of eloquence along, she speaks poignards and every word stabs, speech is but broken light upon the depth of the u, to try thy eloquence now 'tis time.

Sound

N sound, noise, strain, accent, twang, intonation, tone, cadence, sonorousness, audibility, resonance, voice, aspirate, ideophone, rough breathing, acoustics, phonics, phonetics, phonology, phonography, diacoustics, diaphonics, phonetism, sounding, soniferous, sonorous, sonorific, resonant, audible, distinct, stertorous, phonetic, phonic, phonocamptic, a thousand trills and quivering sounds, forensis strepitus.