signify

Other forms of signify

past tense or participle

signified

present participle

signifying·

third person

signifies·

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 signify

What does signify mean?

signify means "denote or connote". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in signify?

signify has 3 syllables: sig-ni-fy. The stress falls on "sig". In IPA it is /ˈsɪɡnəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for signify?

Close synonyms include mean, intend, stand for. 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 signify a common word?

signify is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with signify?

72 words rhyme with signify. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.