pacify

Other forms of pacify

past tense or participle

pacified

present participle

pacifying·

third person

pacifies·

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 pacify

What does pacify mean?

pacify means "cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pacify?

pacify has 3 syllables: pac-i-fy. The stress falls on "pac". In IPA it is /ˈpæsəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for pacify?

Close synonyms include lenify, conciliate, assuage, appease, mollify. 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 pacify a common word?

pacify 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 pacify?

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