agape

1. 1.

   with the mouth wide open as in wonder or awe

   “the gaping audience”

   “we stood there agape with wonder”

   “with mouth agape”

   Synonymsgaping

   Similaropen

Other forms of agape

plural

agapes·

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 agape

What does agape mean?

agape means "(Christian theology) the love of God or Christ for mankind". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in agape?

agape has 2 syllables: a-gape. The stress falls on "gape". In IPA it is /əˈɡeɪp/.

What is another word for agape?

Close synonyms include agape love, love feast, gaping. 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 agape a common word?

agape is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 agape?

1 word rhymes with agape. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.