invest

Other forms of invest

past tense

invested·

present participle

investing·

third person

invests·

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 invest

What does invest mean?

invest means "make an investment". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in invest?

invest has 2 syllables: in-vest. The stress falls on "vest". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈvɛst/.

What is another word for invest?

Close synonyms include put, commit, place, endow, indue. 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 invest?

The recorded antonyms are divest, divest.

Is invest a common word?

invest 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 invest?

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