pontificate

Other forms of pontificate

plural

pontificates·

past tense

pontificated·

present participle

pontificating·

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 pontificate

What does pontificate mean?

pontificate means "administer a pontifical office". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pontificate?

pontificate has 4 syllables: pon-tif-i-cate. The stress falls on "tif". In IPA it is /pɑnˈtɪfəˌkeɪt/.

What is another word for pontificate?

Close synonyms include papacy. 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 pontificate a common word?

pontificate 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.

What rhymes with pontificate?

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