disarming

1. 1.

   act of reducing or depriving of arms

   “the disarmament of the aggressor nations must be complete”

   Synonymsdisarmament

   Antonymsarming

   Broaderdemobilization

1. 1.

   capable of allaying hostility

   Similarunprovocative

Other forms of disarming

plural

disarmings·

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 disarming

What does disarming mean?

disarming means "act of reducing or depriving of arms". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disarming?

disarming has 3 syllables: di-sar-ming. The stress falls on "sar". In IPA it is /dɪˈsɑɹmɪŋ/.

What is another word for disarming?

Close synonyms include disarmament. 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 disarming?

The recorded antonyms are arming.

Is disarming a common word?

disarming 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.