clarify

Other forms of clarify

past tense or participle

clarified

present participle

clarifying·

third person

clarifies·

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 clarify

What does clarify mean?

clarify means "make clear and (more) comprehensible". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in clarify?

clarify has 3 syllables: clar-i-fy. The stress falls on "clar". In IPA it is /ˈklɛɹəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for clarify?

Close synonyms include clear up, elucidate. 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.

What is the opposite of clarify?

The recorded antonyms are obfuscate.

Is clarify a common word?

clarify 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 clarify?

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