locomotive

1. 1.

   of or relating to locomotion

   Synonymslocomotor

Other forms of locomotive

plural

locomotives·

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 locomotive

What does locomotive mean?

locomotive means "a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in locomotive?

locomotive has 4 syllables: lo-co-mo-tive. The stress falls on "mo". In IPA it is /ˌloʊkəˈmoʊtɪv/.

What is another word for locomotive?

Close synonyms include engine, locomotive engine, railway locomotive, locomotor. 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 locomotive a common word?

locomotive is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 locomotive?

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