1. a speech sound produced by forcing air through a narrow opening in the mouth
Usage: linguistics

1. relating to or denoting a fricative consonant
Usage: linguistics

Examples

• The letter ‘f’ represents a fricative sound.
• She studied fricatives in her phonetics class.
• The ‘s’ sound is a voiceless fricative.
• Fricative consonants include sounds like ‘sh’ and ‘th’.
• The fricative quality of the sound made it difficult to pronounce.
• Students learned to identify fricative sounds in different languages.