palsy

1. 1.

   affect with palsy

   Broaderparalyze

Other forms of palsy

plural

palsies·

past tense or participle

palsied

present participle

palsying·

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 palsy

What does palsy mean?

palsy means "loss of the ability to move a body part". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in palsy?

palsy has 2 syllables: pal-sy. The stress falls on "pal". In IPA it is /ˈpɔlzi/.

What is another word for palsy?

Close synonyms include paralysis. 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 palsy a common word?

palsy 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.