describe

Other forms of describe

past tense

described·

present participle

describing·

third person

describes·

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 describe

What does describe mean?

describe means "give a description of". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in describe?

describe has 2 syllables: de-scribe. The stress falls on "scribe". In IPA it is /dɪˈskɹaɪb/.

What is another word for describe?

Close synonyms include depict, draw, report, account, trace. 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 describe a common word?

describe is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 describe?

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