lapidary

Other forms of lapidary

plural

lapidaries·

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 lapidary

What does lapidary mean?

lapidary means "an expert on precious stones and the art of cutting and engraving them". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lapidary?

lapidary has 4 syllables: lap-i-dar-y. The stress falls on "lap". In IPA it is /ˈlæpəˌdɛɹi/.

What is another word for lapidary?

Close synonyms include lapidarist, lapidist. 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 lapidary a common word?

lapidary 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.

What rhymes with lapidary?

4 words rhyme with lapidary. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.