stoop

1. 1.

   an inclination of the top half of the body forward and downward

   Broaderinclination
2. 2.

   basin for holy water

   Synonymsstoup

   Broaderbasin
3. 3.

   small porch or set of steps at the front entrance of a house

   Synonymsstoep

   Broaderporch

Other forms of stoop

plural

stoops·

past tense

stooped·

present participle

stooping·

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 stoop

What does stoop mean?

stoop means "bend one's back forward from the waist on down". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stoop?

stoop has 1 syllable: stoop. In IPA it is /ˈstup/.

What is another word for stoop?

Close synonyms include crouch, bend, bow, condescend, lower oneself. 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 stoop a common word?

stoop 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 stoop?

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