sway

1. 1.

   controlling influence

   Broaderpower
2. 2.

   pitching dangerously to one side

   Synonymsrockcareentilt

   Broaderlurch

Other forms of sway

plural

sways·

past tense

swayed·

present participle

swaying·

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 sway

What does sway mean?

sway means "move back and forth or sideways". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sway?

sway has 1 syllable: sway. In IPA it is /ˈsweɪ/.

What is another word for sway?

Close synonyms include rock, shake, swing, carry, persuade. 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 sway a common word?

sway 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 sway?

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