sternutatory

Other forms of sternutatory

plural

sternutatories·

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 sternutatory

What does sternutatory mean?

sternutatory means "tending to cause sneezing". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sternutatory?

sternutatory has 5 syllables: ster-nu-ta-to-ry. The stress falls on "ta".

What is another word for sternutatory?

Close synonyms include sternutative, sternutator. 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 sternutatory a common word?

sternutatory 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.