arrive

Other forms of arrive

past tense

arrived·

present participle

arriving·

third person

arrives·

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 arrive

What does arrive mean?

arrive means "reach a destination; arrive by movement or progress". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in arrive?

arrive has 2 syllables: ar-rive. The stress falls on "rive". In IPA it is /ɚˈaɪv/.

What is another word for arrive?

Close synonyms include get, come, make it, get in, go far. 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.

What is the opposite of arrive?

The recorded antonyms are leave.

Is arrive a common word?

arrive is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 arrive?

1 word rhymes with arrive. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.