prepossess

Other forms of prepossess

past tense

prepossessed·

present participle

prepossessing·

third person

prepossesses·

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 prepossess

What does prepossess mean?

prepossess means "possess beforehand". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prepossess?

prepossess has 3 syllables: pre-pos-sess. The stress falls on "pre".

What is another word for prepossess?

Close synonyms include prejudice. 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 prepossess a common word?

prepossess 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.