equivocate

Questions about equivocate

What does equivocate mean?

equivocate means "be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information".

How many syllables are in equivocate?

equivocate has 4 syllables: eq-uiv-o-cate. The stress falls on "uiv". In IPA it is /ɪˈkwɪvəˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for equivocate?

Close synonyms include beat around the bush, tergiversate, prevaricate, palter. 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 equivocate a common word?

equivocate 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 equivocate?

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