adjective
- pronounced with rounded lips
Usage: phonetics
Examples
- The labialized consonant required her to round her lips while speaking.
- In phonetics class, we studied labialized sounds from various languages.
- The labialized vowel gave the word a distinctive rounded quality.
- Russian has several labialized consonants that don’t exist in English.
- The linguist noted the labialized pronunciation in the dialect.
- Students practiced distinguishing between labialized and non-labialized sounds.