macerative

1. 1.

   accompanied by or characterized by maceration

   “macerative degeneration of the liver”

Questions about macerative

What does macerative mean?

macerative means "accompanied by or characterized by maceration".

How many syllables are in macerative?

macerative has 4 syllables and divides as ma-ce-ra-tive 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.

Is macerative a common word?

macerative 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.