inaugurate

Other forms of inaugurate

past tense

inaugurated·

present participle

inaugurating·

third person

inaugurates·

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 inaugurate

What does inaugurate mean?

inaugurate means "commence officially". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inaugurate?

inaugurate has 4 syllables: i-nau-gu-rate. The stress falls on "nau". In IPA it is /ɪˈnɔɡjɚɪt/.

What is another word for inaugurate?

Close synonyms include kick off, usher in, introduce. 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 inaugurate a common word?

inaugurate 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.