acquire

Other forms of acquire

past tense

acquired·

present participle

acquiring·

third person

acquires·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about acquire

What does acquire mean?

acquire means "come into the possession of something concrete or abstract". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in acquire?

acquire has 3 syllables, though it cannot be divided in writing — the spelling has fewer vowels than the word has beats. In IPA it is /əˈkwaɪɚ/.

What is another word for acquire?

Close synonyms include get, assume, adopt, take on, take. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is acquire a common word?

acquire is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with acquire?

3 words rhyme with acquire. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.