obviate

Other forms of obviate

past tense

obviated·

present participle

obviating·

third person

obviates·

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 obviate

What does obviate mean?

obviate means "do away with". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in obviate?

obviate has 3 syllables: ob-vi-ate. The stress falls on "ob". In IPA it is /ˈɑbviˌeɪt/.

What is another word for obviate?

Close synonyms include rid of, eliminate, debar, forefend, forfend. 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 obviate?

The recorded antonyms are necessitate.

Is obviate a common word?

obviate 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 obviate?

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