enjoining

Other forms of enjoining

plural

enjoinings·

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 enjoining

What does enjoining mean?

enjoining means "(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity".

How many syllables are in enjoining?

enjoining has 3 syllables: en-joi-ning. The stress falls on "joi". In IPA it is /ˌɛnˈdʒɔɪnɪŋ/.

What is another word for enjoining?

Close synonyms include injunction, enjoinment, cease and desist order. 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 enjoining a common word?

enjoining 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 enjoining?

1 word rhymes with enjoining. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.