appressed

Questions about appressed

What does appressed mean?

appressed means "pressed close to or lying flat against something".

How many syllables are in appressed?

appressed has 2 syllables and divides as ap-pressed under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for appressed?

Close synonyms include adpressed. 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 appressed a common word?

appressed 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.