stultify

Other forms of stultify

past tense or participle

stultified

present participle

stultifying·

third person

stultifies·

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 stultify

What does stultify mean?

stultify means "prove to be of unsound mind or demonstrate someone's incompetence". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stultify?

stultify has 3 syllables: stul-ti-fy. The stress falls on "stul". In IPA it is /ˈstʌltəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for stultify?

Close synonyms include cripple. 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 stultify a common word?

stultify 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.

What rhymes with stultify?

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