ennoble

Other forms of ennoble

past tense

ennobled·

present participle

ennobling·

third person

ennobles·

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 ennoble

What does ennoble mean?

ennoble means "confer dignity or honor upon". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ennoble?

ennoble has 3 syllables: en-no-ble. The stress falls on "no". In IPA it is /ɪˈnoʊbəl/.

What is another word for ennoble?

Close synonyms include dignify, gentle, entitle. 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 ennoble a common word?

ennoble 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 ennoble?

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