abandonment
nounHow many syllables in abandonment?
There are 4 syllables in the word abandonment.How to pronounce abandonment:
Definition of abandonment:
- abandonment (noun):
- the act of giving something up.
- the act of abandoning something or someone
- the act of ceding territory or legal rights
Synonyms for abandonment:
abandon
apostasy
bolt
defection
dereliction
desertion
ease
enthusiasm
exposure
forsaking
jilting
leaving
lightheartedness
naturalness
rejection
spirit
spontaneity
spontaneousness
tergiversation
unconstraint
uninhibitedness
unrestraint
warmth
zeal
Antonyms for abandonment:
reclamation
recoupment
recovery
recuperation
redemption
repossession
retrieval
Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- valuation
- in camera
- fireplaces
- communities
- separator
- defiantness
- allegable
- wrongheadedness
- inanity
- Gujarati
- consentfully
- portentousness
- glitteringly
- gladiolus
- estuarine
- comprehension
- apiarist
- presidential
- petulantly
- generously
- twenty-twenty
- unexpiring
- potato chip
- ephemera
- depressingly
- considering
- compellingly
- numerator
- trattoria
- frivolously
- fertility
- variable
- unwittingly
- exuberance
- desirable
- illustrious
- horrendously
- diaphanous
- inedible
- astonishment
- urology
- miserly
- cyanosis
- contribution
- urushiol
- unconsidered
- cataclysmic
- vitality
- reduplicate
- rationalist
- … more
Syllable Fun Fact
The coda is the part of a syllable that follows the nucleus and can be a single consonant or a consonant cluster.
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