indicate

Other forms of indicate

past tense

indicated·

present participle

indicating·

third person

indicates·

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 indicate

What does indicate mean?

indicate means "be a signal for or a symptom of". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indicate?

indicate has 3 syllables: in-di-cate. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪndəˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for indicate?

Close synonyms include bespeak, betoken, point, signal, point. 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 indicate?

The recorded antonyms are contraindicate, contraindicate.

Is indicate a common word?

indicate is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with indicate?

34 words rhyme with indicate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.