standstill

Other forms of standstill

plural

standstills·

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 standstill

What does standstill mean?

standstill means "a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in standstill?

standstill has 2 syllables: stand-still. The stress falls on "stand". In IPA it is /ˈstændˌstɪl/.

What is another word for standstill?

Close synonyms include deadlock, dead end, impasse, stalemate, stand. 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 standstill a common word?

standstill is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 standstill?

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