IDIOPHONIC Antonyms

• a musical percussion instrument; usually consists of a hollow cylinder with a membrane stretched across each end

• the distinctive quality or pitch or condition of a person's speech

• the sound made by the vibration of vocal folds modified by the resonance of the vocal tract

• a sound suggestive of a vocal utterance

• expressing in coherent verbal form

• a means or agency by which something is expressed or communicated

• something suggestive of speech in being a medium of expression

• (metonymy) a singer

• an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose

• the ability to speak

• (linguistics) the grammatical relation (active or passive) of the grammatical subject of a verb to the action that the verb denotes

• the melody carried by a particular voice or instrument in polyphonic music

• A term used in phonetics and phonology to characterize speech sounds, with sounds described as either voiceless (unvoiced) or voiced.

• give voice to

• utter with vibrating vocal chords