dearie

Other forms of dearie

plural

dearies·

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 dearie

What does dearie mean?

dearie means "a special loved one".

How many syllables are in dearie?

dearie has 3 syllables: de-a-rie. The stress falls on "de".

What is another word for dearie?

Close synonyms include darling, favorite, favourite, pet, deary. 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 dearie a common word?

dearie 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.