knockabout

Other forms of knockabout

plural

knockabouts·

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 knockabout

What does knockabout mean?

knockabout means "full of rough and exuberant animal spirits". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in knockabout?

knockabout has 3 syllables: knoc-ka-bout. The stress falls on "knoc".

What is another word for knockabout?

Close synonyms include boisterous. 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 knockabout a common word?

knockabout 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.