deterioration

Other forms of deterioration

plural

deteriorations·

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 deterioration

What does deterioration mean?

deterioration means "a symptom of reduced quality or strength". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in deterioration?

deterioration has 6 syllables: de-ter-i-o-ra-tion. The stress falls on "ter". In IPA it is /dɪˈtɪɹiɚˌeɪʃən/.

What is another word for deterioration?

Close synonyms include impairment, decline in quality, declension, worsening. 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 deterioration a common word?

deterioration is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 deterioration?

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