retrovert

Other forms of retrovert

past tense

retroverted·

present participle

retroverting·

third person

retroverts·

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 retrovert

What does retrovert mean?

retrovert means "go back to a previous state".

How many syllables are in retrovert?

retrovert has 3 syllables and divides as re-tro-vert 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.

What is another word for retrovert?

Close synonyms include revert, return, regress, turn back. 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 retrovert a common word?

retrovert 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.