incarnate

1. 1.

   make concrete and real

   Antonymsdisincarnate

   Broaderrealize
2. 2.

   represent in bodily form

   “He embodies all that is evil wrong with the system”

   “The painting substantiates the feelings of the artist”

   Synonymsbody forthembodysubstantiate

   Broaderbe

1. 1.

   possessing or existing in bodily form

   “what seemed corporal melted as breath into the wind”

   “an incarnate spirit”

   “`corporate' is an archaic term”

   Synonymsbodiedcorporalcorporateembodied

   Similarcorporeal
2. 2.

   invested with a bodily form especially of a human body

   “a monarch...regarded as a god incarnate”

   Similarbodied

Other forms of incarnate

past tense

incarnated·

present participle

incarnating·

third person

incarnates·

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 incarnate

What does incarnate mean?

incarnate means "make concrete and real". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in incarnate?

incarnate has 3 syllables: in-car-nate. The stress falls on "car". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈkɑɹnət/.

What is another word for incarnate?

Close synonyms include body forth, embody, substantiate, bodied, corporal. 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.

What is the opposite of incarnate?

The recorded antonyms are disincarnate.

Is incarnate a common word?

incarnate 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.