ostracise

Other forms of ostracise

past tense

ostracised·

present participle

ostracising·

third person

ostracises·

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 ostracise

What does ostracise mean?

ostracise means "expel from a community or group". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ostracise?

ostracise has 3 syllables: o-stra-cise. The stress falls on "o".

What is another word for ostracise?

Close synonyms include banish, ban, ostracize, shun, cast out. 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 ostracise a common word?

ostracise 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.