garboil

Questions about garboil

What does garboil mean?

garboil means "a state of commotion and noise and confusion".

How many syllables are in garboil?

garboil has 2 syllables and divides as gar-boil under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for garboil?

Close synonyms include tumult, tumultuousness, uproar. 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 garboil a common word?

garboil 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.