decorate

Other forms of decorate

past tense

decorated·

present participle

decorating·

third person

decorates·

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 decorate

What does decorate mean?

decorate means "make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in decorate?

decorate has 3 syllables: dec-o-rate. The stress falls on "dec". In IPA it is /ˈdɛkɚˌeɪt/.

What is another word for decorate?

Close synonyms include adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautify. 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 decorate a common word?

decorate 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 decorate?

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