obloquy

Other forms of obloquy

plural

obloquys·

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 obloquy

What does obloquy mean?

obloquy means "state of disgrace resulting from public abuse". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obloquy?

obloquy has 3 syllables: o-bloq-uy. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈɔbləˌkwi/.

What is another word for obloquy?

Close synonyms include opprobrium, defamation, calumny, calumniation, traducement. 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 obloquy a common word?

obloquy 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.