jactitate

Other forms of jactitate

past tense

jactitated·

present participle

jactitating·

third person

jactitates·

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 jactitate

What does jactitate mean?

jactitate means "move or stir about violently".

How many syllables are in jactitate?

jactitate has 3 syllables and divides as jac-ti-tate under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for jactitate?

Close synonyms include convulse, thresh, thresh about, thrash, thrash about. 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 jactitate a common word?

jactitate 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.