declaim

Other forms of declaim

past tense

declaimed·

present participle

declaiming·

third person

declaims·

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 declaim

What does declaim mean?

declaim means "recite in elocution". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in declaim?

declaim has 2 syllables: de-claim. The stress falls on "claim". In IPA it is /dɪˈkleɪm/.

What is another word for declaim?

Close synonyms include recite, inveigh. 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 declaim a common word?

declaim 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 declaim?

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