hypocritical

1. 1.

   professing feelings or virtues one does not have

   “hypocritical praise”

   Similarinsincere

Questions about hypocritical

What does hypocritical mean?

hypocritical means "professing feelings or virtues one does not have".

How many syllables are in hypocritical?

hypocritical has 5 syllables: hyp-o-crit-i-cal. The stress falls on "crit". In IPA it is /ˌhɪpəˈkɹɪtɪkəl/.

Is hypocritical a common word?

hypocritical is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 hypocritical?

3 words rhyme with hypocritical. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.