relieved

Other forms of relieved

comparative

relievedder·

superlative

relieveddest·

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 relieved

What does relieved mean?

relieved means "(of pain or sorrow) made easier to bear". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in relieved?

relieved has 2 syllables: relie-ved. The stress falls on "ved". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈlivd/.

What is another word for relieved?

Close synonyms include alleviated, eased, jutting, projected, projecting. 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 relieved a common word?

relieved is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 relieved?

1 word rhymes with relieved. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.