unwind

Other forms of unwind

past tense or participle

unwound

present participle

unwinding·

third person

unwinds·

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 unwind

What does unwind mean?

unwind means "reverse the winding or twisting of". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unwind?

unwind has 2 syllables: un-wind. The stress falls on "wind". In IPA it is /ənˈwaɪnd/.

What is another word for unwind?

Close synonyms include wind off, unroll, disentangle, relax, loosen up. 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 unwind?

The recorded antonyms are wind.

Is unwind a common word?

unwind is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for 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 unwind?

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