uninitiate

Other forms of uninitiate

plural

uninitiates·

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 uninitiate

What does uninitiate mean?

uninitiate means "people who have not been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in uninitiate?

uninitiate has 5 syllables: u-ni-ni-ti-ate. The stress falls on "ni".

What is another word for uninitiate?

Close synonyms include uninitiated, naive. 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 uninitiate?

The recorded antonyms are initiate.

Is uninitiate a common word?

uninitiate 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.