operant

1. 1.

   having influence or producing an effect

   “many emotional determinants at work”

   “an operant conscience”

   Similaroperative

Questions about operant

What does operant mean?

operant means "having influence or producing an effect".

How many syllables are in operant?

operant has 3 syllables: o-pe-rant. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈɑpɚənt/.

Is operant a common word?

operant 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.