retroflex
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
bend or turn backward
Types & categories
- bend hypernym
Related & opposite
- retroflection derivation
Sense 2 adjective
bent or curved backward
Related & opposite
- backward similar to
Sense 3 verb
articulate (a consonant) with the tongue curled back against the palate
Indian accents can be characterized by the fact that speakers retroflex their consonants
Types & categories
- sound out hypernym
Related & opposite
- retroflection derivation
Sense 4 adjective
pronounced with the tip of the tongue turned back toward the hard palate
Related & opposite
- linguistics domain topic
- backward similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | retroflection |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | bend |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | backward |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | retroflection |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound out |
| 4 | domain topic | Related & opposite | linguistics |
| 4 | similar to | Related & opposite | backward |