antiphonal

1. 1.

   containing or using responses; alternating

   “responsive reading”

   “antiphonal laughter”

   Synonymsresponsive
2. 2.

   relating to or resembling an antiphon or antiphony

   Synonymsantiphonary

1. 1.

   bound collection of antiphons

   Synonymsantiphonary

   Broaderreligious music

Other forms of antiphonal

plural

antiphonals·

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 antiphonal

What does antiphonal mean?

antiphonal means "containing or using responses; alternating". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in antiphonal?

antiphonal has 4 syllables: an-ti-pho-nal. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for antiphonal?

Close synonyms include responsive, antiphonary, antiphonary. 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 antiphonal a common word?

antiphonal 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.