noun a fricative consonant letter or sound. ·see guide to pronunciation, // 197-206, ·etc.
2. fricative ·adj produced by the friction or rustling of the breath, intonated or unintonated, through a narrow opening between two of the mouth organs; uttered through a close approach, but not with a complete closure, of the organs of articulation, and hence capable of being continued or prolonged;
said of certain consonantal sounds, as f, v, s, z, ·etc.