regulate

Other forms of regulate

past tense

regulated·

present participle

regulating·

third person

regulates·

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 regulate

What does regulate mean?

regulate means "fix or adjust the time, amount, degree, or rate of". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in regulate?

regulate has 3 syllables: reg-u-late. The stress falls on "reg". In IPA it is /ˈɹɛɡjəˌleɪt/.

What is another word for regulate?

Close synonyms include modulate, regularize, regularise, order, govern. 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.

What is the opposite of regulate?

The recorded antonyms are deregulate.

Is regulate a common word?

regulate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 regulate?

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