retardation

Other forms of retardation

plural

retardations·

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 retardation

What does retardation mean?

retardation means "a decrease in rate of change". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in retardation?

retardation has 4 syllables: re-tar-da-tion. The stress falls on "da". In IPA it is /ɹitɑɹˈdeɪʃən/.

What is another word for retardation?

Close synonyms include deceleration, slowing, retardant, retardent, mental retardation. 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 retardation a common word?

retardation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. 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 retardation?

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