shock-absorbent

1. 1.

   having the capacity to absorb the energy of an impact

   “the material absorbs shock and is used for shock-absorbent insoles”

   Similarabsorbent

Questions about shock-absorbent

What does shock-absorbent mean?

shock-absorbent means "having the capacity to absorb the energy of an impact".

How many syllables are in shock-absorbent?

shock-absorbent has 4 syllables and divides as shoc-k-ab-sor-bent 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.

Is shock-absorbent a common word?

shock-absorbent 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.