schoolboyish

Questions about schoolboyish

What does schoolboyish mean?

schoolboyish means "befitting or characteristic of a young boy".

How many syllables are in schoolboyish?

schoolboyish has 2 syllables and divides as school-boyish 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 schoolboyish?

Close synonyms include boyish, boylike. 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 schoolboyish a common word?

schoolboyish 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.