motile

1. 1.

   one whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action

   Broaderperceiver

1. 1.

   (of spores or microorganisms) capable of movement

   Similarmobile

   microorganism

Other forms of motile

plural

motiles·

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 motile

What does motile mean?

motile means "one whose prevailing mental imagery takes the form of inner feelings of action". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in motile?

motile has 2 syllables: moti-le. The stress falls on "moti". In IPA it is /ˈmoʊtəl/.

Is motile a common word?

motile 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 motile?

1 word rhymes with motile. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.