a sound that you make by quickly stopping your breath leaving your mouth and then suddenly letting it go again. The sounds ‘k’, ‘p’, and ‘t’ are plosives.
Synonyms and related words
Terms in phonetics
affricate
alveolar
articulator
derived word
plosive
adjective
Synonyms and related words
Terms in phonetics
affricate
alveolar
articulator
plosive
noun countable linguistics
US /ˈploʊsɪv/
Word Forms
singular
plosive
plural
plosives
DEFINITIONS1
1
a sound that you make by quickly stopping your breath leaving your mouth and then suddenly letting it go again. The sounds “k,” “p,” and “t” are plosives.