sit

Other forms of sit

past tense or participle

sat

present participle

sitting

third person

sits·

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 sit

What does sit mean?

sit means "be seated". That is the primary sense; the word has 10 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sit?

sit has 1 syllable: sit. In IPA it is /ˈsɪt/.

What is another word for sit?

Close synonyms include sit down, sit around, sit down, model, pose. 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.

What is the opposite of sit?

The recorded antonyms are stand, lie.

Is sit a common word?

sit is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. 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 sit?

1 word rhymes with sit. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.