lancinating

Questions about lancinating

What does lancinating mean?

lancinating means "painful as if caused by a sharp instrument".

How many syllables are in lancinating?

lancinating has 4 syllables and divides as lan-ci-na-ting 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 lancinating?

Close synonyms include cutting, keen, knifelike, piercing, stabbing. 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 lancinating a common word?

lancinating 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.