pronation

1. 1.

   rotation of the hands and forearms so that the palms face downward

   Antonymssupination

   Broaderrotation

Other forms of pronation

plural

pronations·

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 pronation

What does pronation mean?

pronation means "rotation of the hands and forearms so that the palms face downward".

How many syllables are in pronation?

pronation has 4 syllables: pro-na-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is the opposite of pronation?

The recorded antonyms are supination.

Is pronation a common word?

pronation 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.