piecemeal

Other forms of piecemeal

comparative

piecemealer·

superlative

piecemealest·

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 piecemeal

What does piecemeal mean?

piecemeal means "one thing at a time". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in piecemeal?

piecemeal has 2 syllables: piece-meal. The stress falls on "piece". In IPA it is /ˈpiˌsmil/.

What is another word for piecemeal?

Close synonyms include bit-by-bit, in small stages, step-by-step, stepwise, little by little. 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 piecemeal a common word?

piecemeal 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.