nosedive

1. 1.

   plunge nose first; drop with the nose or front first, of aircraft

   Broaderdive

   air travel

Other forms of nosedive

plural

nosedives·

past tense

nosedived·

present participle

nosediving·

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 nosedive

What does nosedive mean?

nosedive means "a sudden sharp drop or rapid decline". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nosedive?

nosedive has 2 syllables: nose-dive. The stress falls on "nose". In IPA it is /ˈnoʊzˌdaɪv/.

What is another word for nosedive?

Close synonyms include dive, nose dive. 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 nosedive a common word?

nosedive 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 nosedive?

1 word rhymes with nosedive. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.