colligate

Other forms of colligate

past tense

colligated·

present participle

colligating·

third person

colligates·

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 colligate

What does colligate mean?

colligate means "make a logical or causal connection". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in colligate?

colligate has 3 syllables: col-li-gate. The stress falls on "col".

What is another word for colligate?

Close synonyms include associate, tie in, relate, link, link up. 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 colligate a common word?

colligate 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.