blastoff

1. 1.

   the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination

   Synonymsshot

   Broaderrocket firing

Other forms of blastoff

plural

blastoffs·

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 blastoff

What does blastoff mean?

blastoff means "the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination".

How many syllables are in blastoff?

blastoff has 2 syllables: blas-toff. The stress falls on "blas". In IPA it is /ˈblæˌstɔf/.

What is another word for blastoff?

Close synonyms include shot. 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 blastoff a common word?

blastoff 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.