excommunicate

Other forms of excommunicate

past tense

excommunicated·

present participle

excommunicating·

third person

excommunicates·

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 excommunicate

What does excommunicate mean?

excommunicate means "exclude from a church or a religious community". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in excommunicate?

excommunicate has 5 syllables: ex-com-mu-ni-cate. The stress falls on "mu". In IPA it is /ˌɛkskəˈmjunəˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for excommunicate?

Close synonyms include unchurch, curse. 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 excommunicate?

The recorded antonyms are communicate.

Is excommunicate a common word?

excommunicate 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 excommunicate?

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