enjoin

Other forms of enjoin

past tense

enjoined·

present participle

enjoining·

third person

enjoins·

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 enjoin

What does enjoin mean?

enjoin means "issue an injunction". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enjoin?

enjoin has 2 syllables: en-join. The stress falls on "join". In IPA it is /ˌɛnˈdʒɔɪn/.

What is another word for enjoin?

Close synonyms include order, tell, say. 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 enjoin a common word?

enjoin is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. 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 enjoin?

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