filibuster

Other forms of filibuster

plural

filibusters·

past tense

filibusterred·

present participle

filibusterring·

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 filibuster

What does filibuster mean?

filibuster means "a legislator who gives long speeches in an effort to delay or obstruct legislation that he (or she) opposes". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in filibuster?

filibuster has 4 syllables: fil-i-bus-ter. The stress falls on "fil". In IPA it is /ˈfɪləˌbʌstɚ/.

What is another word for filibuster?

Close synonyms include filibusterer. 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 filibuster a common word?

filibuster 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 filibuster?

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