synchronic

1. 1.

   occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase

   “recovery was synchronous with therapy”

   “a synchronous set of clocks”

   “the synchronous action of a bird's wings in flight”

   “synchronous oscillations”

   Synonymssynchronoussynchronal

   Similarcoetaneouscoexistentcoincidentcontemporaneousparallelsynchronized
2. 2.

   concerned with phenomena (especially language) at a particular period without considering historical antecedents

   “synchronic linguistics”

   Antonymsdiachronic

   language

3. 3.

   (of taxa) occurring in the same period of geological time

   Similarsynchronous

Questions about synchronic

What does synchronic mean?

synchronic means "occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in synchronic?

synchronic has 3 syllables: synch-ro-nic. The stress falls on "ro". In IPA it is /sɪŋˈkɹɑnɪk/.

What is another word for synchronic?

Close synonyms include synchronous, synchronal. 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 synchronic?

The recorded antonyms are diachronic.

Is synchronic a common word?

synchronic 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.

What rhymes with synchronic?

1 word rhymes with synchronic. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.