kept

1. 1.

   (especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded

   “unbroken promises”

   “promises kept”

   Synonymsunbroken

   contract

Other forms of kept

comparative

kepter·

superlative

keptest·

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 kept

What does kept mean?

kept means "(especially of promises or contracts) not violated or disregarded".

How many syllables are in kept?

kept has 1 syllable: kept. In IPA it is /ˈkɛpt/.

What is another word for kept?

Close synonyms include unbroken. 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 kept a common word?

kept is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.