nonbelligerent

1. 1.

   not directly at war

   “nonbelligerent nations”

   Similarpeaceful

Questions about nonbelligerent

What does nonbelligerent mean?

nonbelligerent means "not directly at war".

How many syllables are in nonbelligerent?

nonbelligerent has 5 syllables and divides as non-bel-li-ge-rent 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 nonbelligerent a common word?

nonbelligerent 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.