interdict

Other forms of interdict

plural

interdicts·

past tense

interdicted·

present participle

interdicting·

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 interdict

What does interdict mean?

interdict means "an ecclesiastical censure by the Roman Catholic Church withdrawing certain sacraments and Christian burial from a person or all persons in a particular district". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in interdict?

interdict has 3 syllables: in-ter-dict. The stress falls on "in". In IPA it is /ˈɪntɚˌdɪkt/.

What is another word for interdict?

Close synonyms include interdiction, forbid, prohibit, proscribe, veto. 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 interdict a common word?

interdict 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 interdict?

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