unbaptised

1. 1.

   not having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism

   Synonymsunbaptized

Questions about unbaptised

What does unbaptised mean?

unbaptised means "not having undergone the Christian ritual of baptism".

How many syllables are in unbaptised?

unbaptised has 3 syllables and divides as un-bap-tised 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.

What is another word for unbaptised?

Close synonyms include unbaptized. 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 unbaptised a common word?

unbaptised 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.