mortification

Other forms of mortification

plural

mortifications·

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 mortification

What does mortification mean?

mortification means "strong feelings of embarrassment". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in mortification?

mortification has 4 syllables: mor-tifi-ca-tion. The stress falls on "mor". In IPA it is /ˈmɔɹtəfˌkeɪʃən/.

What is another word for mortification?

Close synonyms include chagrin, humiliation, necrosis, gangrene, sphacelus. 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 mortification a common word?

mortification 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.

What rhymes with mortification?

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