What does hortatory mean?

hortatory means "giving strong encouragement".

How many syllables are in hortatory?

hortatory has 4 syllables: hor-ta-to-ry. The stress falls on "ta".

What is another word for hortatory?

Close synonyms include exhortative, exhortatory, hortative. 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 hortatory a common word?

hortatory 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.

hortatory — meaning, pronunciation and definition

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
giving strong encouragement
Synonymsexhortative exhortatory hortative
Similarencouraging

Questions about hortatory

What does hortatory mean?: hortatory means "giving strong encouragement".
How many syllables are in hortatory?: hortatory has 4 syllables: hor-ta-to-ry. The stress falls on "ta".
What is another word for hortatory?

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