Backest

Full definition of backest

Adjective

1. (phonetics)

   backest

   (superlative of back)
   Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders, p. 56:
2. He set up two anchor points for his system using articulatory criteria: cardinal vowel 1 was the highest, frontest vowel that one could make without the sound becoming a consonant, and cardinal vowel 5 was the lowest, backest vowel one could produce without pulling the tongue back into the pharynx.

Anagrams

• setback, set back