undulate

1. 1.

   having a wavy margin and rippled surface

   Similarsmooth

Other forms of undulate

past tense

undulated·

present participle

undulating·

third person

undulates·

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 undulate

What does undulate mean?

undulate means "stir up (water) so as to form ripples". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in undulate?

undulate has 3 syllables: un-du-late. The stress falls on "un". In IPA it is /ˈʌndʒəˌleɪt/.

What is another word for undulate?

Close synonyms include ripple, ruffle, riffle, cockle, roll. 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 undulate a common word?

undulate 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 undulate?

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