Dictionary Definition
lingual adj
1 consisting of or related to language;
"linguistic behavior"; "a linguistic atlas"; "lingual diversity"
[syn: linguistic]
[ant: nonlinguistic]
2 pertaining to or resembling or lying near the
tongue; "lingual inflammation"; "the lingual surface of the
teeth"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- /ˈlɪŋɡwəl/
Adjective
- related to the tongue
- related to language or linguistics
- articulated with the tongue
- Of a lower tooth, on the side facing the tongue. See mesial.
Noun
- a sound articulated with the tongue
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Extensive Definition
Lingual can refer to:
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
accented, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
apico-dental, articulated, assimilated, back, barytone, bilabial, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, checked, close, consonant, consonantal, continuant, dental, descriptive, dissimilated, dorsal, enunciated, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, glottochronological,
grammatic, graphemic, guttural, hard, heavy, high, intonated, labial, labiodental, labiovelar, lateral, lax, lexicographic, lexicological, lexicostatistical,
light, linguiform, linguistic, lingulate, liquid, low, metalinguistic, mid, monophthongal, morphological, morphophonemic, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, nuncupative, occlusive, open, oral, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parol, pharyngeal, pharyngealized, philological, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, phonological, pitch, pitched, posttonic, pronounced, psycholinguistic,
retroflex, rounded, said, semantic, semivowel, soft, sonant, sounded, speech, spoken, stopped, stressed, strong, structural, surd, syllabic, syntactic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonguelike, tonic, twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, unwritten, uttered, velar, verbal, viva voce, vocal, vocalic, vocalized, vocoid, voiced, voiceful, voiceless, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide