Ingressive

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  • adjective. Of, relating to, or involving ingress.
  • adjective. Inchoative.
  • adjective. Of or being a speech sound produced with an inhalation of breath.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Entering; denoting entering on or beginning.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. going or directed inward, entering
  • adjective. open to entry or examination
  • adjective. Uttered by drawing air inward through the mouth or nose.
  • adjective. descriptive of a source or channel through which water enters or once entered an area.
  • noun. A speech sound in which the air stream is created by drawing air in through the mouth or nose.
  • Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    egressive