upbraiding

Questions about upbraiding

What does upbraiding mean?

upbraiding means "a severe scolding".

How many syllables are in upbraiding?

upbraiding has 3 syllables: up-brai-ding. The stress falls on "up".

What is another word for upbraiding?

Close synonyms include castigation, earful, bawling out, chewing out, going-over. 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 upbraiding a common word?

upbraiding 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.