winking

1. 1.

   closing the eyes intermittently and rapidly

   “he stood blinking in the bright sunlight”

   Synonymsblinking

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Other forms of winking

plural

winkings·

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 winking

What does winking mean?

winking means "a reflex that closes and opens the eyes rapidly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in winking?

winking has 2 syllables: win-king. The stress falls on "win". In IPA it is /ˈwɪŋkɪŋ/.

What is another word for winking?

Close synonyms include blink, eye blink, blinking, wink, nictitation. 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 winking a common word?

winking 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.