sunburn

1. 1.

   get a sunburn by overexposure to the sun

   Synonymsburn

   Broaderdiscolor

Other forms of sunburn

plural

sunburns·

past tense

sunburned·

present participle

sunburning·

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 sunburn

What does sunburn mean?

sunburn means "a browning of the skin resulting from exposure to the rays of the sun". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sunburn?

sunburn has 2 syllables: sun-burn. The stress falls on "sun". In IPA it is /ˈsʌnˌbɝn/.

What is another word for sunburn?

Close synonyms include tan, suntan, burn, erythema solare, burn. 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 sunburn a common word?

sunburn 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.

What rhymes with sunburn?

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