fixate

Other forms of fixate

past tense

fixated·

present participle

fixating·

third person

fixates·

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 fixate

What does fixate mean?

fixate means "attach (oneself) to a person or thing in a neurotic way". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fixate?

fixate has 2 syllables: fix-ate. The stress falls on "fix". In IPA it is /ˈfɪkˌseɪt/.

What is another word for fixate?

Close synonyms include fix, settle on. 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 fixate a common word?

fixate 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 fixate?

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