outdoors

Other forms of outdoors

plural

outdoorses·

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 outdoors

What does outdoors mean?

outdoors means "where the air is unconfined". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in outdoors?

outdoors has 2 syllables: out-doors. The stress falls on "out". In IPA it is /ˈaʊtˈdɔɹz/.

What is another word for outdoors?

Close synonyms include out-of-doors, open air, open, outside, out of doors. 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 outdoors?

The recorded antonyms are indoors.

Is outdoors a common word?

outdoors is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 outdoors?

1 word rhymes with outdoors. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.