gesticulating

1. 1.

   making gestures while speaking

   “her gesticulating hands and arms made words almost unnecessary”

   Similarcommunicative

Questions about gesticulating

What does gesticulating mean?

gesticulating means "making gestures while speaking".

How many syllables are in gesticulating?

gesticulating has 5 syllables and divides as ge-sti-cu-la-ting 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.

Is gesticulating a common word?

gesticulating 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.