feline

1. 1.

   of or relating to cats

   “feline fur”

Other forms of feline

plural

felines·

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 feline

What does feline mean?

feline means "any of various lithe-bodied roundheaded fissiped mammals, many with retractile claws". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in feline?

feline has 2 syllables: fe-line. The stress falls on "fe". In IPA it is /ˈfiˌlaɪn/.

What is another word for feline?

Close synonyms include felid. 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 feline a common word?

feline 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 feline?

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