postpone

Other forms of postpone

past tense

postponed·

present participle

postponing·

third person

postpones·

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 postpone

What does postpone mean?

postpone means "hold back to a later time".

How many syllables are in postpone?

postpone has 2 syllables: post-pone. The stress falls on "pone". In IPA it is /poʊstˈpoʊn/.

What is another word for postpone?

Close synonyms include prorogue, hold over, put over, table, shelve. 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 postpone a common word?

postpone 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 postpone?

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