ramify

Other forms of ramify

past tense or participle

ramified

present participle

ramifying·

third person

ramifies·

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 ramify

What does ramify mean?

ramify means "have or develop complicating consequences". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ramify?

ramify has 3 syllables: ram-i-fy. The stress falls on "ram". In IPA it is /ˈɹæməˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for ramify?

Close synonyms include complexify, branch, branch, fork, furcate. 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 ramify a common word?

ramify 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 ramify?

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