anoint

Other forms of anoint

past tense

anointed·

present participle

anointing·

third person

anoints·

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 anoint

What does anoint mean?

anoint means "choose by or as if by divine intervention". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in anoint?

anoint has 2 syllables: a-noint. The stress falls on "noint". In IPA it is /əˈnɔɪnt/.

What is another word for anoint?

Close synonyms include inunct, oil, anele, embrocate. 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 anoint a common word?

anoint is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.