annual

1. 1.

   completing its life cycle within a year

   “a border of annual flowering plants”

   Synonymsone-year

   Antonymsbiennialperennial

   botany

2. 2.

   occurring or payable every year

   “an annual trip to Paris”

   “yearly medical examinations”

   “annual (or yearly) income”

   Synonymsyearly

   Similarperiodic

Other forms of annual

plural

annuals·

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 annual

What does annual mean?

annual means "(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in annual?

annual has 3 syllables: an-nu-al. The stress falls on "an". In IPA it is /ˈænjuəl/.

What is another word for annual?

Close synonyms include yearly, yearbook, one-year, yearly. 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.

What is the opposite of annual?

The recorded antonyms are biennial, perennial.

Is annual a common word?

annual is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.