solarize

Other forms of solarize

past tense

solarized·

present participle

solarizing·

third person

solarizes·

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 solarize

What does solarize mean?

solarize 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 solarize?

solarize has 3 syllables: so-la-rize. The stress falls on "so".

What is another word for solarize?

Close synonyms include solarise, solarise, solarise, 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 solarize a common word?

solarize 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.