suppressed

Other forms of suppressed

comparative

suppressedder·

superlative

suppresseddest·

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 suppressed

What does suppressed mean?

suppressed means "kept from public knowledge by various means". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in suppressed?

suppressed has 2 syllables: sup-pressed. The stress falls on "pressed". In IPA it is /səˈpɹɛst/.

What is another word for suppressed?

Close synonyms include smothered, stifled, strangled. 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.

What is the opposite of suppressed?

The recorded antonyms are publicized.

Is suppressed a common word?

suppressed 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 suppressed?

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