fulminate

1. 1.

   a salt or ester of fulminic acid

   Broadersalt

   Narrowermercury fulminate

Other forms of fulminate

plural

fulminates·

past tense

fulminated·

present participle

fulminating·

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 fulminate

What does fulminate mean?

fulminate means "criticize severely". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fulminate?

fulminate has 3 syllables: ful-mi-nate. The stress falls on "ful". In IPA it is /ˈfʊlməˌneɪt/.

What is another word for fulminate?

Close synonyms include rail. 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 fulminate a common word?

fulminate 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.

What rhymes with fulminate?

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