cabal

1. 1.

   engage in plotting or enter into a conspiracy, swear together

   “They conspired to overthrow the government”

   Synonymsconspirecomplotconjuremachinate

   Broaderplot

   Narrowercoconspire

Other forms of cabal

plural

cabals·

past tense or participle

caballed

present participle

caballing

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 cabal

What does cabal mean?

cabal means "a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cabal?

cabal has 2 syllables: ca-bal. The stress falls on "bal". In IPA it is /kəˈbɑl/.

What is another word for cabal?

Close synonyms include faction, junto, camarilla, conspiracy, conspire. 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 cabal a common word?

cabal 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.

What rhymes with cabal?

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