machinate

Other forms of machinate

past tense

machinated·

present participle

machinating·

third person

machinates·

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 machinate

What does machinate mean?

machinate means "arrange by systematic planning and united effort". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in machinate?

machinate has 3 syllables: ma-chi-nate. The stress falls on "ma".

What is another word for machinate?

Close synonyms include organize, organise, prepare, devise, get up. 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 machinate a common word?

machinate 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.