stonewalling

1. 1.

   stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate

   Broaderstall

Other forms of stonewalling

plural

stonewallings·

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 stonewalling

What does stonewalling mean?

stonewalling means "stalling or delaying especially by refusing to answer questions or cooperate".

How many syllables are in stonewalling?

stonewalling has 3 syllables: stone-wal-ling. The stress falls on "stone". In IPA it is /ˈstoʊnˌwɔlɪŋ/.

Is stonewalling a common word?

stonewalling is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.