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: lan-ci-na-ting. The stress falls on "ci".

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.