inculpate

1. 1.

   suggest that someone is guilty

   Synonymsincriminateimply

   Broadersuggest

Other forms of inculpate

past tense

inculpated·

present participle

inculpating·

third person

inculpates·

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 inculpate

What does inculpate mean?

inculpate means "suggest that someone is guilty".

How many syllables are in inculpate?

inculpate has 3 syllables: in-cul-pate. The stress falls on "in".

What is another word for inculpate?

Close synonyms include incriminate, imply. 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 inculpate a common word?

inculpate 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.