ill-treatment

Questions about ill-treatment

What does ill-treatment mean?

ill-treatment means "cruel or inhumane treatment".

How many syllables are in ill-treatment?

ill-treatment has 4 syllables and divides as ill--tre-at-ment 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 ill-treatment?

Close synonyms include maltreatment, ill-usage, abuse. 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 ill-treatment a common word?

ill-treatment 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.