needlepoint

1. 1.

   lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern

   Synonymspoint lace

   Broaderlace
2. 2.

   embroidery consisting of allover embroidered canvas resembling tapestry

   Synonymsneedlepoint embroidery

   Broaderembroidery

   Narrowergros pointpetit point

Other forms of needlepoint

plural

needlepoints·

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 needlepoint

What does needlepoint mean?

needlepoint means "lace worked with a needle in a buttonhole stitch on a paper pattern". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in needlepoint?

needlepoint has 3 syllables: need-le-point. The stress falls on "need". In IPA it is /ˈnidəlˌpɔɪnt/.

What is another word for needlepoint?

Close synonyms include point lace, needlepoint embroidery. 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 needlepoint a common word?

needlepoint 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 needlepoint?

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