stymy

Other forms of stymy

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 stymy

What does stymy mean?

stymy 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 stymy?

stymy has 2 syllables: sty-my. The stress falls on "sty".

What is another word for stymy?

Close synonyms include stymie, stymie, 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 stymy a common word?

stymy 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.