compensate

Other forms of compensate

past tense

compensated·

present participle

compensating·

third person

compensates·

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 compensate

What does compensate mean?

compensate means "adjust for". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in compensate?

compensate has 3 syllables: com-pen-sate. The stress falls on "com". In IPA it is /ˈkɑmpənˌseɪt/.

What is another word for compensate?

Close synonyms include counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off. 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 compensate a common word?

compensate 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 compensate?

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