outgo

1. 1.

   be or do something to a greater degree

   “her performance surpasses that of any other student I know”

   “She outdoes all other athletes”

   “This exceeds all my expectations”

   “This car outperforms all others in its class”

   Synonymssurpassoutstripoutmatchexceedoutdosurmountoutperform

   Broaderbeat

   Narroweroutwitoutgrowoutshoutoutroaroutsailoutdrawoutselloutpacebetteroutshine

Other forms of outgo

plural

outgoes·

past tense or participle

outgone

past tense or participle

outwent

present participle

outgoing·

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 outgo

What does outgo mean?

outgo means "money paid out; an amount spent". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in outgo?

outgo has 2 syllables: out-go. The stress falls on "out". In IPA it is /ˈaʊtˌɡoʊ/.

What is another word for outgo?

Close synonyms include spending, expenditure, outlay, surpass, outstrip. 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 outgo?

The recorded antonyms are income.

Is outgo a common word?

outgo 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.

What rhymes with outgo?

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