instill

Other forms of instill

past tense

instilled·

present participle

instilling·

third person

instills·

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 instill

What does instill mean?

instill means "impart gradually". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in instill?

instill has 2 syllables: in-still. The stress falls on "still". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈstɪl/.

What is another word for instill?

Close synonyms include transfuse, instil, impress, ingrain, inculcate. 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 instill a common word?

instill 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.

What rhymes with instill?

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