cajole

Other forms of cajole

past tense

cajoled·

present participle

cajoling·

third person

cajoles·

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 cajole

What does cajole mean?

cajole means "influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering".

How many syllables are in cajole?

cajole has 2 syllables: cajo-le. The stress falls on "le". In IPA it is /kəˈdʒoʊl/.

What is another word for cajole?

Close synonyms include wheedle, palaver, blarney, coax, sweet-talk. 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 cajole a common word?

cajole 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.