magnify

Other forms of magnify

past tense or participle

magnified

present participle

magnifying·

third person

magnifies·

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 magnify

What does magnify mean?

magnify means "increase in size, volume or significance". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in magnify?

magnify has 3 syllables: mag-ni-fy. The stress falls on "mag". In IPA it is /ˈmæɡnəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for magnify?

Close synonyms include amplify, overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize. 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 magnify a common word?

magnify is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 magnify?

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