bouncing

1. 1.

   rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)

   Synonymsbounce

   Broaderrecoil

Other forms of bouncing

plural

bouncings·

comparative

bouncinger·

superlative

bouncingest·

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 bouncing

What does bouncing mean?

bouncing means "vigorously healthy". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bouncing?

bouncing has 2 syllables: boun-cing. The stress falls on "boun". In IPA it is /ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/.

What is another word for bouncing?

Close synonyms include bouncy, peppy, spirited, zippy, bounce. 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 bouncing a common word?

bouncing is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.