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 and divides as de-mo-ra-lise under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.