approbation

1. 1.

   official approval

   Broaderapproval
2. 2.

   official recognition or approval

   Antonymsdisapprobation

   Broaderapproval

Other forms of approbation

plural

approbations·

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 approbation

What does approbation mean?

approbation means "official approval". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in approbation?

approbation has 4 syllables: ap-pro-ba-tion. The stress falls on "ba". In IPA it is /ˌæpɹəˈbeɪʃən/.

What is the opposite of approbation?

The recorded antonyms are disapprobation.

Is approbation a common word?

approbation 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.

What rhymes with approbation?

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