peripatetic

Other forms of peripatetic

plural

peripatetics·

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 peripatetic

What does peripatetic mean?

peripatetic means "a person who walks from place to place". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in peripatetic?

peripatetic has 5 syllables: per-i-pa-tet-ic. The stress falls on "tet". In IPA it is /ˌpɛɹəpəˈtɛtɪk/.

What is another word for peripatetic?

Close synonyms include Aristotelian, Aristotelean, Aristotelian, Aristotelean, Aristotelic. 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 peripatetic a common word?

peripatetic 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.

What rhymes with peripatetic?

1 word rhymes with peripatetic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.