onomatopoetic

What does onomatopoetic mean?

onomatopoetic means "of or relating to or characterized by onomatopoeia". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in onomatopoetic?

onomatopoetic has 7 syllables: o-no-ma-to-po-e-tic. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for onomatopoetic?

Close synonyms include onomatopoeic, echoic, imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical. 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 onomatopoetic a common word?

onomatopoetic 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for onomatopoetic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.