adopted
adjectiveHow many syllables in adopted?
There are 3 syllables in the word adopted.How to pronounce adopted:
Definition of adopted:
- adopted (adjective):
- having been adopted such as
- acquired as your own by free choice.
Synonyms for adopted:
fatherless
illegitimate
misbegotten
motherless
nameless
orphaned
unfathered
Antonyms for adopted:
blundered
bombed
failed
fell
fell flat
fell short
felled
fizzled
flopped
floundered
fluffed
flunked
folded
foundered
lost out
missed
missed the mark
slipped
Here are some other common 3-syllable words.
- unbending
- aweather
- pensively
- vocalize
- presently
- dactylic
- craziness
- sorriest
- opossum
- contortion
- pisaca
- subpoena
- ruggedness
- bona fide
- stadium
- pattering
- helpfulness
- eviler
- downtrodden
- peridot
- vibrancy
- reassurance
- overtop
- papilla
- faithfulness
- assuming
- unfasten
- reuniting
- preordained
- Nevada
- interval
- Fukiko
- chimera
- manyfold
- tentative
- Rubenesque
- hereof
- rickety
- unison
- unflagging
- umbrageous
- raspberry
- hearkening
- descended
- doubleyou
- misdial
- Heramba
- Zanzibar
- untrodden
- quiescent
- … more
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