onshore

Other forms of onshore

comparative

onshorer·

superlative

onshorest·

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 onshore

What does onshore mean?

onshore means "(of winds) coming from the sea toward the land". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in onshore?

onshore has 2 syllables: on-shore. The stress falls on "on". In IPA it is /ˈɑnˌʃɔɹ/.

What is another word for onshore?

Close synonyms include inshore, shoreward. 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 onshore?

The recorded antonyms are offshore.

Is onshore a common word?

onshore 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 onshore?

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