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/ˈkɒn.sə.nənt/ · noun
(phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel..
Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
“Tell me, has right anything to do with the law?” I asked. “You have used the wrong initial consonant,” he smiled in answer. “Might?” I queried; and he nodded his head.
This essential right of the courts to be free of intimidation and coercion was held to be consonant with a recognition that freedom of the press must be allowed in the broadest scope compatible with the supremacy of order.
Each one pretends that his opinion […] is consonant to the words there used.
Cheerfulness, even gaiety, is consonant with every species of virtue and practice of religion, and I think it inconsistent only with impiety and vice.
1645-1650, James Howell, Epistolae Ho-Elianae consonant words and syllables
consonant tones; consonant chords
No Russian whose dissonant consonant name / Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.
Use consonant when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Consonant means (phonetics) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel..
Common synonyms include concordant, harmonious, accordant, agreeable.
Possible antonyms include disconsonant, dissonant, discordant, vowel.
Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
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