invigorate

Other forms of invigorate

past tense

invigorated·

present participle

invigorating·

third person

invigorates·

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 invigorate

What does invigorate mean?

invigorate means "heighten or intensify". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in invigorate?

invigorate has 4 syllables: in-vig-o-rate. The stress falls on "vig". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈvɪɡɚɪt/.

What is another word for invigorate?

Close synonyms include inspire, animate, enliven, exalt, quicken. 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 invigorate a common word?

invigorate 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.