furnishing

1. 1.

   (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel

   Synonymstrappings

   Broaderaccessory

   plural

2. 2.

   (usually plural) the instrumentalities (furniture and appliances and other movable accessories including curtains and rugs) that make a home (or other area) livable

   Broaderinstrumentality

   Narrowerappointmentcurtainfurniturerug

   plural

3. 3.

   the act of providing a house or room with furniture and other removable items such as shelves, carpets, appliances, etc.

   Broaderinterior decoration

Other forms of furnishing

plural

furnishings·

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 furnishing

What does furnishing mean?

furnishing means "(usually plural) accessory wearing apparel". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in furnishing?

furnishing has 3 syllables: fur-ni-shing. The stress falls on "fur". In IPA it is /ˈfɝnɪʃɪŋ/.

What is another word for furnishing?

Close synonyms include trappings. 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 furnishing a common word?

furnishing 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.