communicate

Other forms of communicate

past tense

communicated·

present participle

communicating·

third person

communicates·

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 communicate

What does communicate mean?

communicate means "transmit information". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in communicate?

communicate has 4 syllables: com-mu-ni-cate. The stress falls on "mu". In IPA it is /kəˈmjunəˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for communicate?

Close synonyms include pass on, pass, pass along, put across, intercommunicate. 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 communicate?

The recorded antonyms are excommunicate.

Is communicate a common word?

communicate is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 communicate?

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