aggrandise

Other forms of aggrandise

past tense

aggrandised·

present participle

aggrandising·

third person

aggrandises·

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 aggrandise

What does aggrandise mean?

aggrandise means "add details to".

How many syllables are in aggrandise?

aggrandise has 3 syllables: ag-gran-dise. The stress falls on "ag".

What is another word for aggrandise?

Close synonyms include embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize. 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 aggrandise a common word?

aggrandise 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.