outboard

1. 1.

   located away from the midline of a vessel or aircraft

   “the outboard section of a wing”

   “outboard rigging”

   Antonymsinboard

   Similarportable

Other forms of outboard

plural

outboards·

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 outboard

What does outboard mean?

outboard means "a motorboat with an outboard motor". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in outboard?

outboard has 2 syllables: out-board. The stress falls on "out". In IPA it is /ˈaʊtˌbɔɹd/.

What is another word for outboard?

Close synonyms include outboard motorboat, outboard motor. 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 outboard?

The recorded antonyms are inboard.

Is outboard a common word?

outboard 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 outboard?

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