What does diphthongal mean?
Diphthongal means Pertaining to or characterized by a diphthong..
Looking up this word…
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
Checking saved dictionary data and trusted language sources. This will stop automatically if a source does not respond.
/dɪfˈθɔŋɡəl/ · adjective
Pertaining to or characterized by a diphthong..
‘This,’ the colonel said […] ‘is a lampshade. It looks like an ordinary lampshade. It was taken from the bedside lamp of Frau Koch. It’s genuine human skin.’ It sounded more gruesome spoken in his diphthongal southern manner—skee-ern.
Use diphthongal when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Diphthongal means Pertaining to or characterized by a diphthong..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
‘This,’ the colonel said […] ‘is a lampshade. It looks like an ordinary lampshade. It was taken from the bedside lamp of Frau Koch. It’s genuine human skin.’ It sounded more gruesome spoken in his diphthongal southern manner—skee-ern.
FreeDictionaryAPI.com / Wiktionary · Original source · CC BY-SA 4.0
Dictionary data is provided by FreeDictionaryAPI.com and sourced from Wiktionary under its stated license.