precipitating

1. 1.

   bringing on suddenly or abruptly

   “the completion of the railroad was the precipitating cause in the extinction of waterborne commerce”

   Similarcausative

Questions about precipitating

What does precipitating mean?

precipitating means "bringing on suddenly or abruptly".

How many syllables are in precipitating?

precipitating has 5 syllables: pre-cip-i-ta-ting. The stress falls on "cip". In IPA it is /pɹɪˈsɪpəˌteɪtɪŋ/.

Is precipitating a common word?

precipitating 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 precipitating?

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