stymie

Other forms of stymie

plural

stymies·

past tense

stymied·

present participle

stymying

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 stymie

What does stymie mean?

stymie means "a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stymie?

stymie has 2 syllables: sty-mie. The stress falls on "sty". In IPA it is /ˈstaɪmi/.

What is another word for stymie?

Close synonyms include stymy, stymy, obstruct, blockade, block. 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 stymie a common word?

stymie 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.