differentiate

Other forms of differentiate

past tense

differentiated·

present participle

differentiating·

third person

differentiates·

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 differentiate

What does differentiate mean?

differentiate means "mark as different". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in differentiate?

differentiate has 5 syllables: dif-fe-ren-ti-ate. The stress falls on "ren". In IPA it is /ˌdɪfɚˈɛnʃiˌeɪt/.

What is another word for differentiate?

Close synonyms include distinguish, separate, secern, secernate, severalize. 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.

What is the opposite of differentiate?

The recorded antonyms are integrate, dedifferentiate.

Is differentiate a common word?

differentiate 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 differentiate?

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