1. pronounced without a puff of air following the consonant sound
Usage: phonetics

Examples

• The ‘p’ in ‘spin’ is unaspirated, unlike the ‘p’ in ‘pin’.
• French stop consonants are typically unaspirated.
• Students learning phonetics must distinguish between aspirated and unaspirated sounds.
• The unaspirated ‘t’ sound occurs after ‘s’ in English words like ‘stop’.
• Many languages have only unaspirated consonants.
• In the word ‘speak’, the ‘p’ is unaspirated because it follows ‘s’.