demoralise

Other forms of demoralise

past tense

demoralised·

present participle

demoralising·

third person

demoralises·

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 demoralise

What does demoralise mean?

demoralise means "corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in demoralise?

demoralise has 4 syllables: de-mo-ra-lise. The stress falls on "mo".

What is another word for demoralise?

Close synonyms include corrupt, pervert, subvert, demoralize, debauch. 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 demoralise a common word?

demoralise 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.