nullify

Other forms of nullify

past tense or participle

nullified

present participle

nullifying·

third person

nullifies·

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 nullify

What does nullify mean?

nullify means "declare invalid". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in nullify?

nullify has 3 syllables: nul-li-fy. The stress falls on "nul". In IPA it is /ˈnʌləˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for nullify?

Close synonyms include invalidate, annul, quash, void, avoid. 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 nullify a common word?

nullify 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 nullify?

72 words rhyme with nullify. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.