enlist

Other forms of enlist

past tense

enlisted·

present participle

enlisting·

third person

enlists·

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 enlist

What does enlist mean?

enlist means "join the military". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enlist?

enlist has 2 syllables: en-list. The stress falls on "list". In IPA it is /ˌɛnˈlɪst/.

What is another word for enlist?

Close synonyms include engage, draft, muster in. 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 enlist?

The recorded antonyms are discharge.

Is enlist a common word?

enlist is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 enlist?

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