committal

1. 1.

   the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)

   Synonymscommitmentconsignment

   Broaderconfinement
2. 2.

   the act of committing a crime

   Synonymsperpetrationcommission

   Broadercrime

Other forms of committal

plural

committals·

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 committal

What does committal mean?

committal means "the official act of consigning a person to confinement (as in a prison or mental hospital)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in committal?

committal has 3 syllables: com-mit-tal. The stress falls on "mit". In IPA it is /kəˈmɪtəl/.

What is another word for committal?

Close synonyms include commitment, consignment, perpetration, commission. 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 committal a common word?

committal 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 committal?

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