oblate

Questions about oblate

What does oblate mean?

oblate means "a lay person dedicated to religious work or the religious life". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oblate?

oblate has 2 syllables: o-blate. The stress falls on "blate". In IPA it is /ɑˈbleɪt/.

What is another word for oblate?

Close synonyms include pumpkin-shaped. 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.

What is the opposite of oblate?

The recorded antonyms are prolate.

Is oblate a common word?

oblate 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.

What rhymes with oblate?

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