moisturise

Questions about moisturise

What does moisturise mean?

moisturise means "make (more) humid".

How many syllables are in moisturise?

moisturise has 3 syllables: moi-stu-rise. The stress falls on "moi".

What is another word for moisturise?

Close synonyms include humidify, moisturize. 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 moisturise a common word?

moisturise 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.