recasting

1. 1.

   changing a particular word or phrase

   Synonymsrewordingrephrasing

   Broaderrewriting

   Narrowerparaphrase

Other forms of recasting

plural

recastings·

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 recasting

What does recasting mean?

recasting means "changing a particular word or phrase".

How many syllables are in recasting?

recasting has 3 syllables: re-cas-ting. The stress falls on "cas". In IPA it is /ɹiˈkæstɪŋ/.

What is another word for recasting?

Close synonyms include rewording, rephrasing. 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 recasting a common word?

recasting 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 recasting?

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