carnivorous

Questions about carnivorous

What does carnivorous mean?

carnivorous means "relating to or characteristic of carnivores". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in carnivorous?

carnivorous has 4 syllables: car-niv-o-rous. The stress falls on "niv". In IPA it is /kɑɹˈnɪvɚəs/.

What is the opposite of carnivorous?

The recorded antonyms are herbivorous, omnivorous, insectivorous.

Is carnivorous a common word?

carnivorous 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.

What rhymes with carnivorous?

1 word rhymes with carnivorous. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.