inshore

Other forms of inshore

comparative

inshorer·

superlative

inshorest·

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 inshore

What does inshore mean?

inshore means "(of winds) coming from the sea toward the land". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inshore?

inshore has 2 syllables: in-shore. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪnˈʃɔɹ/.

What is another word for inshore?

Close synonyms include onshore, shoreward. 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 inshore?

The recorded antonyms are offshore.

Is inshore a common word?

inshore 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.

What rhymes with inshore?

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