nonappointive

1. 1.

   filled by popular election rather than by appointment

   Similarelective

Questions about nonappointive

What does nonappointive mean?

nonappointive means "filled by popular election rather than by appointment".

How many syllables are in nonappointive?

nonappointive has 4 syllables and divides as no-nap-poin-tive under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is nonappointive a common word?

nonappointive 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.