Phonic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Phonic \Phon"ic\ (f[o^]n"[i^]k; 277), a. [Gr. fwnh` sound: cf.
     F. phonique.]
     Of or pertaining to sound; of the nature of sound; acoustic.
     --Tyndall.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  phonic
       adj 1: pertaining to the phonic method of teaching reading
       2: relating to speech
       3: of or relating to speech sounds; "phonetic transcription"
          [syn: {phonetic}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "phonic":
     accented, acoustic, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental,
     articulated, assimilated, audible, audile, audio, auditory, aural,
     auricular, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central,
     cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant,
     dental, dissimilated, dorsal, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal,
     guttural, hard, hearing, heavy, high, hypersonic, intonated,
     labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, light, lingual,
     liquid, low, mid, monophthongal, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized,
     occlusive, open, otic, otological, otopathic, otoscopic, oxytone,
     palatal, palatalized, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, phonemic,
     phonetic, pitch, pitched, posttonic, retroflex, rounded, semivowel,
     soft, sonant, sonic, stopped, stressed, strong, subsonic,
     supersonic, surd, syllabic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic,
     transonic, transsonic, twangy, ultrasonic, unaccented, unrounded,
     unstressed, velar, vocalic, vocoid, voiced, voiceless, vowel,
     vowellike, weak, wide