synchronise

Other forms of synchronise

past tense

synchronised·

present participle

synchronising·

third person

synchronises·

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 synchronise

What does synchronise mean?

synchronise means "happen at the same time". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in synchronise?

synchronise has 3 syllables: synch-ro-nise. The stress falls on "synch".

What is another word for synchronise?

Close synonyms include synchronize, contemporize, contemporise, synchronize, synchronize. 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 synchronise?

The recorded antonyms are desynchronise.

Is synchronise a common word?

synchronise 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.