romish

Questions about romish

What does romish mean?

romish means "of or relating to or supporting Romanism".

How many syllables are in romish?

romish has 2 syllables and divides as ro-mish 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 romish?

Close synonyms include Roman, R.C., Romanist, Roman Catholic, popish. 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 romish a common word?

romish 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.