What does hortatory mean?

hortatory means "giving strong encouragement".

How many syllables are in hortatory?

hortatory has 4 syllables and divides as hor-ta-to-ry 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 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 and 3 synonyms

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 and divides as hor-ta-to-ry 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.

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