equinoctial

Other forms of equinoctial

plural

equinoctials·

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 equinoctial

What does equinoctial mean?

equinoctial means "relating to the vicinity of the equator". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in equinoctial?

equinoctial has 5 syllables: eq-ui-noc-ti-al. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for equinoctial?

Close synonyms include celestial equator, equinoctial circle, equinoctial line. 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 equinoctial a common word?

equinoctial 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.