outlying

1. 1.

   relatively far from a center or middle

   “outlying settlements”

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Questions about outlying

What does outlying mean?

outlying means "relatively far from a center or middle".

How many syllables are in outlying?

outlying has 3 syllables: o-ut-lying. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˈaʊtˌlaɪɪŋ/.

Is outlying a common word?

outlying 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 outlying?

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