avoid

Other forms of avoid

past tense

avoided·

present participle

avoiding·

third person

avoids·

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 avoid

What does avoid mean?

avoid means "stay clear from; keep away from; keep out of the way of someone or something". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in avoid?

avoid has 2 syllables: a-void. The stress falls on "void". In IPA it is /əˈvɔɪd/.

What is another word for avoid?

Close synonyms include debar, forefend, forfend, obviate, deflect. 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 avoid?

The recorded antonyms are confront.

Is avoid a common word?

avoid is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 avoid?

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