asonant

English

Etymology

a- +‎ sonant

Adjective

asonant (not comparable)

1. Not sounding or sounded.

   The first d in "Wednesday" and the s in "aisle" are asonant.

   • 1829, Rhyme the Leading Principle of Latin Versification (page 15)

     Thus reponens is an asonant rhyme to deprœlian in the following stanza.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of C. C. Felton to this entry?)

Usage notes

• Not to be confused with assonant.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “asonant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• nanosat