furnish

Other forms of furnish

past tense

furnished·

present participle

furnishing·

third person

furnishes·

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 furnish

What does furnish mean?

furnish means "give something useful or necessary to". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in furnish?

furnish has 2 syllables: fur-nish. The stress falls on "fur". In IPA it is /ˈfɝnɪʃ/.

What is another word for furnish?

Close synonyms include supply, provide, render. 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 furnish a common word?

furnish is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.