unvoluntary

Questions about unvoluntary

What does unvoluntary mean?

unvoluntary means "not subject to the control of the will".

How many syllables are in unvoluntary?

unvoluntary has 5 syllables and divides as un-vo-lun-ta-ry 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 unvoluntary?

Close synonyms include involuntary, nonvoluntary. 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 unvoluntary a common word?

unvoluntary 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.