solarise

Other forms of solarise

past tense

solarised·

present participle

solarising·

third person

solarises·

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 solarise

What does solarise mean?

solarise means "reverse some of the tones of (a negative or print) and introduce pronounced outlines of highlights, by exposing it briefly to light, then washing and redeveloping it". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in solarise?

solarise has 3 syllables: so-la-rise. The stress falls on "so".

What is another word for solarise?

Close synonyms include solarize, solarize, solarize, sun, insolate. 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 solarise a common word?

solarise 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.