illume

Other forms of illume

past tense

illumed·

present participle

illuming·

third person

illumes·

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 illume

What does illume mean?

illume means "make lighter or brighter".

How many syllables are in illume?

illume has 2 syllables: il-lume. The stress falls on "lume".

What is another word for illume?

Close synonyms include light, illumine, light up, illuminate. 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 illume a common word?

illume 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.