nonterritorial

1. 1.

   not displaying territoriality

   “a nonterritorial species”

   Antonymsterritorial

   biology

Questions about nonterritorial

What does nonterritorial mean?

nonterritorial means "not displaying territoriality".

How many syllables are in nonterritorial?

nonterritorial has 6 syllables and divides as non-ter-ri-to-ri-al 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 nonterritorial?

The recorded antonyms are territorial.

Is nonterritorial a common word?

nonterritorial 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.