reticulate

1. 1.

   form a net or a network

   Broaderchange
2. 2.

   distribute by a network, as of water or electricity

   Broaderdistribute
3. 3.

   divide so as to form a network

   Broaderform

1. 1.

   resembling or forming a network

   “the reticulate veins of a leaf”

   “a reticulated highway system”

   Synonymsreticular

   Antonymsnonreticulate

   Similarcancellatecrisscrossfrettedinterconnectedlacymeshednetworklike

Other forms of reticulate

past tense

reticulated·

present participle

reticulating·

third person

reticulates·

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 reticulate

What does reticulate mean?

reticulate means "form a net or a network". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reticulate?

reticulate has 4 syllables: re-ti-cu-late. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for reticulate?

Close synonyms include reticular. 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 reticulate?

The recorded antonyms are nonreticulate.

Is reticulate a common word?

reticulate 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.