Consonant

Noun

 * 1)  A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
 * 2) A letter representing the sound of a consonant.

Adjective

 * 1) Characterized by harmony or agreement.

Adjectives for Consonant
concurring; mute; nasal; slurred; elided; rumbling; jarring; harsh; true.

Thesaurus
accordant, according, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, alike, allophone, alveolar, answerable, apical, apico-alveolar, apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated, assimilation, assonant, assonantal, at one, attuned, automatic, back, balanced, barytone, bilabial, blended, blending, broad, cacuminal, central, cerebral, check, checked, chiming, close, coexistent, coexisting, coherent, coincident, coinciding, commensurate, compatible, concordant, concurrent, concurring, conformable, congenial, congruent, congruous, consentaneous, consentient, consistent, consonantal, constant, continuant, continuous, cooperating, cooperative, correspondent, corresponding, dental, diphthong, dissimilated, dissimilation, dorsal, en rapport, epenthetic vowel, equable, equal, equivalent, even, explosive, flat, front, glide, glossal, glottal, glottalization, guttural, hard, harmonic, harmonious, harmonizing, heavy, high, homogeneous, homophonic, immutable, in accord, in agreement, in chorus, in concert, in concord, in rapport, in sync, in synchronization, in tune, in unison, inaccordance, inharmony, intonated, invariable, labial, labialization, labiodental, labiovelar, laryngeal, lateral, lax, level, light, like-minded, lingual, liquid, low, manner of articulation, measured, mechanical, methodic, mid, modification, monodic, monolithic, monophonic, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, occlusive, of a piece, of like mind, of one mind, on all fours, open, ordered, orderly, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel, peak, persistent, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized, phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched, plosive, positive, posttonic, proportionate, prothetic vowel, reconcilable, regular, retroflex, robotlike, rounded, segmental phoneme, self-consistent, semivowel, smooth, soft, sonant, sonority, speech sound, stable, steadfast, steady, stop, stopped, stressed, strong, surd, syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable, symbiotic, sympathetic, symphonious, synchronized, synchronous, systematic, tense, thick, throaty, tonal, tonic, transition sound, triphthong, tuned, twangy, unaccented, unanimous, unbroken, unchangeable, unchanged, unchanging, undeviating, undifferentiated, undiversified, uniform, unisonant, unisonous, unrounded, unruffled, unstressed, unvaried, unvarying, velar, vibrant, vocable, vocalic, vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound, voicing, vowel, vowellike, weak, wide

Etymology
From consonans, sounding with, from prefix con-, with, + present participle sonans, sounding, from sonare, to sound

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian: съгласна
 * Catalan: consonant
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, 輔音, 辅音
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: σύμφωνο
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:


 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: 자음
 * Macedonian: согласка
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish: consonante
 * Swedish: konsonant, konsonantljud, medljud
 * Telugu: హల్లు (hallu)
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian: приголосний
 * Vietnamese:
 * Volapük: konsonat


 * Armenian:
 * Catalan: consonant
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek: σύμφωνο
 * Hebrew:


 * Hindi: व्यंजन वर्ण
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, 子音字
 * Korean: 자음
 * Macedonian: согласка
 * Russian:
 * Sanskrit:
 * Scottish Gaelic: ,
 * Spanish: consonante
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: హల్లు (hallu)
 * Ukrainian: приголосна
 * Volapük: konsonat, konsonatatonat

Adjective

 * Bulgarian: съзвучен, хармоничен
 * Catalan: consonant
 * French: ,
 * Hungarian: konszonáns


 * Italian: consonante or
 * Russian:, совместимый
 * Slovak: súhlasný, súhlasná , súhlasné

Etymology
From consonans:.