disarmament

1. 1.

   act of reducing or depriving of arms

   “the disarmament of the aggressor nations must be complete”

   Synonymsdisarming

   Antonymsarmament

   Broaderdemobilization

Other forms of disarmament

plural

disarmaments·

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 disarmament

What does disarmament mean?

disarmament means "act of reducing or depriving of arms".

How many syllables are in disarmament?

disarmament has 4 syllables: di-sar-ma-ment. The stress falls on "sar". In IPA it is /dɪˈsɑɹməmənt/.

What is another word for disarmament?

Close synonyms include disarming. 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 disarmament?

The recorded antonyms are armament.

Is disarmament a common word?

disarmament 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.