Ingressive

Quick meaning: Ingressive is an adjective meaning Going or directed inward, entering.

Meaning

Going or directed inward, entering.

More Meanings

1. Open to entry or examination.
2. (phonetics, of a speech sound) Uttered by drawing air inward through the mouth or nose.
3. (grammar) Aspectually indicating that an action is about to be entered or is in the process of being entered.
4. (geology) Being a source or channel through which water enters or once entered an area.
5. (phonetics) A speech sound in which the air stream is created by drawing air in through the mouth or nose.

Example Sentences

This spring is the ingressive source of the water that flows through the cave.

The chances that your Internet activity is being monitored are low, despite the ingressive nature of the modern Internet environment.

Another feature of Icelandic pronunciation that many learners remark on is that sometimes words, and even larger parts of sentences, are pronounced while inhaling (a phenomenon known as pulmonic ingressive pronunciation).

Word Forms

• ingressives

Antonyms for ingressive

Common opposites include egressive.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include aorist, airstream, inward, incessive, inbound, inflowing.

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