composite

1. 1.

   consisting of separate interconnected parts

   Similarcomplex
2. 2.

   of or relating to or belonging to the plant family Compositae

   botany

Other forms of composite

plural

composites·

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 composite

What does composite mean?

composite means "a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in composite?

composite has 3 syllables: com-po-site. The stress falls on "po". In IPA it is /kəmˈpɑzət/.

What is another word for composite?

Close synonyms include complex, composite plant. 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 composite a common word?

composite 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 composite?

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