widening

Other forms of widening

plural

widenings·

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 widening

What does widening mean?

widening means "an increase in width". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in widening?

widening has 3 syllables: wi-de-ning. The stress falls on "wi". In IPA it is /ˈwaɪdənɪŋ/.

What is another word for widening?

Close synonyms include broadening, turnout, broadening. 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 widening?

The recorded antonyms are narrowing, narrowing.

Is widening a common word?

widening is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.