egressive
noun1
Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences A speech sound in which the air stream is created by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.
- Antonyms
- ingressive
egressive
adj1
Going or directed outward.
2
Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences Of a speech sound Uttered by pushing air out through the mouth or nose.
3
Geography, Geology, Natural sciences descriptive of a place or channel through which something such as water or lava leaves an area.
- This ancient wash was an egressive channel that once drained a lake.
- Antonyms
- ingressive
- Derived terms
- egressively