stable

1. 1.

   a farm building for housing horses or other livestock

   Synonymsstallshorse barn

   Broaderfarm building

   NarrowerAugean stableslivery stable

   Partsstall

1. 1.

   shelter in a stable

   “stable horses”

   Broadershelter

   animal husbandry

Other forms of stable

plural

stables·

past tense

stabled·

present participle

stabling·

comparative

stabler·

superlative

stablest·

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 stable

What does stable mean?

stable means "resistant to change of position or condition". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stable?

stable has 2 syllables: sta-ble. The stress falls on "sta". In IPA it is /ˈsteɪbəl/.

What is another word for stable?

Close synonyms include static, unchanging, stalls, horse barn. 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 stable?

The recorded antonyms are unstable.

Is stable a common word?

stable is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. 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 stable?

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