unhinge

Other forms of unhinge

past tense

unhinged·

present participle

unhinging·

third person

unhinges·

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 unhinge

What does unhinge mean?

unhinge means "disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unhinge?

unhinge has 2 syllables: un-hinge. The stress falls on "hinge". In IPA it is /ənˈhɪndʒ/.

What is another word for unhinge?

Close synonyms include perturb, disquiet, trouble, cark, distract. 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 unhinge a common word?

unhinge 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 unhinge?

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