labially

With the lips

Labially means using or involving the lips.

In phonetics, sounds produced labially involve lip contact or rounding: The sound was articulated labially.

In other contexts, it describes anything done with or related to the lips: She applied the medication labially.

phonetics

rounded

Having no sharp angles

nasal · consonant · vowel · voiced · voiceless · articulation · rounding · protrusion · closure · constriction

speech

lips

Mouth's outer edges

articulate · utterance · mouth · rounding · mumble · lipreading · mouthpiece · diction · formation · movement

Opposites
place of articulation

labiallypalatally

Using mouth's roof

dentally · lingually · gutturally · apically · coronally

Family

labial, bilabial, labials, bilabials

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