evergreen

Other forms of evergreen

plural

evergreens·

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 evergreen

What does evergreen mean?

evergreen means "a plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in evergreen?

evergreen has 3 syllables: ev-er-green. The stress falls on "ev". In IPA it is /ˈɛvɚˌɡɹin/.

What is another word for evergreen?

Close synonyms include evergreen plant. 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 evergreen?

The recorded antonyms are deciduous.

Is evergreen a common word?

evergreen 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 evergreen?

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