attenuate

Other forms of attenuate

past tense

attenuated·

present participle

attenuating·

third person

attenuates·

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 attenuate

What does attenuate mean?

attenuate means "weaken the consistency of (a chemical substance)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in attenuate?

attenuate has 4 syllables: at-ten-u-ate. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /əˈtɛnjuˌeɪt/.

What is another word for attenuate?

Close synonyms include rarefy, attenuated, faded, weakened. 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 attenuate a common word?

attenuate 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 attenuate?

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