remittent

1. 1.

   (of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity

   “a remittent fever”

   Similardecreased

Questions about remittent

What does remittent mean?

remittent means "(of a disease) characterized by periods of diminished severity".

How many syllables are in remittent?

remittent has 3 syllables and divides as re-mit-tent under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is remittent a common word?

remittent 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.