nonprehensile

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   not prehensile

   Antonymsprehensile

Questions about nonprehensile

What does nonprehensile mean?

nonprehensile means "not prehensile".

How many syllables are in nonprehensile?

nonprehensile has 5 syllables and divides as non-pre-hen-si-le 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.

What is the opposite of nonprehensile?

The recorded antonyms are prehensile.

Is nonprehensile a common word?

nonprehensile 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.