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]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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