pronate

1. 1.

   turn the forearm or the hand so that the palm is directed downwards

   Broaderturn

Other forms of pronate

past tense

pronated·

present participle

pronating·

third person

pronates·

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 pronate

What does pronate mean?

pronate means "turn the forearm or the hand so that the palm is directed downwards".

How many syllables are in pronate?

pronate has 2 syllables: pro-nate. The stress falls on "nate".

Is pronate a common word?

pronate 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.