debasement

Other forms of debasement

plural

debasements·

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 debasement

What does debasement mean?

debasement means "being mixed with extraneous material; the product of adulterating". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in debasement?

debasement has 3 syllables: deba-se-ment. The stress falls on "se". In IPA it is /dəˈbeɪsmənt/.

What is another word for debasement?

Close synonyms include adulteration, degradation. 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 debasement a common word?

debasement is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met 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 debasement?

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