expound

Other forms of expound

past tense

expounded·

present participle

expounding·

third person

expounds·

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 expound

What does expound mean?

expound means "add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in expound?

expound has 2 syllables: ex-pound. The stress falls on "pound". In IPA it is /ɪkˈspaʊnd/.

What is another word for expound?

Close synonyms include elaborate, lucubrate, expatiate, exposit, enlarge. 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 expound a common word?

expound 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.