antiaircraft

1. 1.

   designed for defense from a surface position against air attack

   Similardefensive

Other forms of antiaircraft

plural

antiaircrafts·

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 antiaircraft

What does antiaircraft mean?

antiaircraft means "artillery designed to shoot upward at airplanes". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in antiaircraft?

antiaircraft has 4 syllables: an-ti-air-craft. The stress falls on "air". In IPA it is /ˌæntiˈɛɹˌkɹæft/.

What is another word for antiaircraft?

Close synonyms include antiaircraft gun, flak, flack, pom-pom, ack-ack. 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 antiaircraft a common word?

antiaircraft 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.

What rhymes with antiaircraft?

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