buttressed

Questions about buttressed

What does buttressed mean?

buttressed means "held up by braces or buttresses".

How many syllables are in buttressed?

buttressed has 2 syllables: but-tressed. The stress falls on "but". In IPA it is /ˈbʌtɹəst/.

What is another word for buttressed?

Close synonyms include braced. 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 buttressed a common word?

buttressed 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for buttressed come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.