sentimentalise

Other forms of sentimentalise

past tense

sentimentalised·

present participle

sentimentalising·

third person

sentimentalises·

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 sentimentalise

What does sentimentalise mean?

sentimentalise means "make (someone or something) sentimental or imbue with sentimental qualities". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sentimentalise?

sentimentalise has 5 syllables and divides as sen-ti-men-ta-lise 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 sentimentalise?

Close synonyms include sentimentalize, sentimentalize, sentimentalize, sentimentize, sentimentise. 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 sentimentalise a common word?

sentimentalise 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.