enthusiast

Other forms of enthusiast

plural

enthusiasts·

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 enthusiast

What does enthusiast mean?

enthusiast means "an ardent and enthusiastic supporter of some person or activity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enthusiast?

enthusiast has 4 syllables: en-thu-si-ast. The stress falls on "thu". In IPA it is /ɛnˈθuziˌæst/.

What is another word for enthusiast?

Close synonyms include partisan, partizan, fancier. 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 enthusiast a common word?

enthusiast 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.

What rhymes with enthusiast?

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