ambulatory

Other forms of ambulatory

plural

ambulatories·

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 ambulatory

What does ambulatory mean?

ambulatory means "relating to or adapted for walking". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ambulatory?

ambulatory has 5 syllables: am-bu-la-to-ry. The stress falls on "am". In IPA it is /ˈæmbjələˌtɔɹi/.

What is another word for ambulatory?

Close synonyms include ambulant. 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 ambulatory a common word?

ambulatory 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 ambulatory?

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