rotatory

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn

   Synonymsrevolutionary

Questions about rotatory

What does rotatory mean?

rotatory means "of or relating to or characteristic or causing an axial or orbital turn".

How many syllables are in rotatory?

rotatory has 4 syllables and divides as ro-ta-to-ry 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 rotatory?

Close synonyms include revolutionary. 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 rotatory a common word?

rotatory 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.