uprising

Other forms of uprising

plural

uprisings·

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 uprising

What does uprising mean?

uprising means "organized opposition to authority; a conflict in which one faction tries to wrest control from another".

How many syllables are in uprising?

uprising has 3 syllables: u-pri-sing. The stress falls on "pri". In IPA it is /əˈpɹaɪzɪŋ/.

What is another word for uprising?

Close synonyms include rebellion, insurrection, revolt, rising. 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 uprising a common word?

uprising 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 uprising?

3 words rhyme with uprising. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.