irradiate

Other forms of irradiate

past tense

irradiated·

present participle

irradiating·

third person

irradiates·

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 irradiate

What does irradiate mean?

irradiate means "give spiritual insight to; in religion". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in irradiate?

irradiate has 4 syllables: ir-ra-di-ate. The stress falls on "ra". In IPA it is /ˌɪˈɹeɪdiˌeɪt/.

What is another word for irradiate?

Close synonyms include enlighten, ray. 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 irradiate a common word?

irradiate 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 irradiate?

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