Monophthongal

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Consisting of or pertaining to a monophthong.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Consisting of, or pertaining to, a monophthong.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Of or pertaining to a monophthong.
  • adjective. Pronounced as a single vowel sound; said especially of a vowel that is otherwise normally pronounced as a diphthong.
  • Word Usage
    "The modern monophthongal vowels come first, with the derived forms interspersed according to their form: first added i, then iotized, then iotized with added i."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning