past participle

1. 1.

   a participle that expresses completed action

   Synonymsperfect participle

   Broaderparticiple

Questions about past participle

What does past participle mean?

past participle means "a participle that expresses completed action".

What is another word for past participle?

Close synonyms include perfect participle. 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 past participle a common word?

past participle 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.