assent

Other forms of assent

plural

assents·

past tense

assented·

present participle

assenting·

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 assent

What does assent mean?

assent means "agreement with a statement or proposal to do something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in assent?

assent has 2 syllables: as-sent. The stress falls on "sent". In IPA it is /əˈsɛnt/.

What is another word for assent?

Close synonyms include acquiescence, accede, acquiesce. 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 assent?

The recorded antonyms are dissent.

Is assent a common word?

assent 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 assent?

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