ulcerative

1. 1.

   of or relating to or characterized by ulceration

   “ulcerative colitis”

Questions about ulcerative

What does ulcerative mean?

ulcerative means "of or relating to or characterized by ulceration".

How many syllables are in ulcerative?

ulcerative has 4 syllables and divides as ul-ce-ra-tive under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is ulcerative a common word?

ulcerative 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.