alimentative

1. 1.

   related to the supply of aliment

Questions about alimentative

What does alimentative mean?

alimentative means "related to the supply of aliment".

How many syllables are in alimentative?

alimentative has 5 syllables and divides as a-li-men-ta-tive under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is alimentative a common word?

alimentative 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.