hydrate

1. 1.

   any compound that contains water of crystallization

   Broadercompound

   Narrowermonohydrate

Other forms of hydrate

plural

hydrates·

past tense

hydrated·

present participle

hydrating·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hydrate

What does hydrate mean?

hydrate means "supply water or liquid to in order to maintain a healthy balance". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hydrate?

hydrate has 2 syllables: hy-drate. The stress falls on "hy". In IPA it is /ˈhaɪˌdɹeɪt/.

What is the opposite of hydrate?

The recorded antonyms are dehydrate.

Is hydrate a common word?

hydrate 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.

What rhymes with hydrate?

1 word rhymes with hydrate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.