plosive.

Produced by blocking airflow briefly and then releasing it, as certain speech sounds are.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• plosive consonant
• plosive burst

On the page

A plosive consonant caught against the microphone.

The recording emphasized each plosive burst in her careful speech.

Usage notes

Primary category: sensory / description. Forms: Normally non-gradable as a material, structural, phonetic, or color classification; use degree language only for a meaningful resemblance. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.