parasite

Other forms of parasite

plural

parasites·

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 parasite

What does parasite mean?

parasite means "an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in parasite?

parasite has 3 syllables: par-a-site. The stress falls on "par". In IPA it is /ˈpɛɹəˌsaɪt/.

What is another word for parasite?

Close synonyms include leech, sponge, sponger. 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 parasite?

The recorded antonyms are host.

Is parasite a common word?

parasite 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 parasite?

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