high-interest

1. 1.

   (used of loans) charging a relatively large percentage of the amount borrowed

   Antonymslow-interest

Questions about high-interest

What does high-interest mean?

high-interest means "(used of loans) charging a relatively large percentage of the amount borrowed".

How many syllables are in high-interest?

high-interest has 4 syllables and divides as hig-h-in-te-rest 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 the opposite of high-interest?

The recorded antonyms are low-interest.

Is high-interest a common word?

high-interest 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.