adulation
nounHow many syllables in adulation?
There are 4 syllables in the word adulation.How to pronounce adulation:
Definition of adulation:
- adulation (noun):
- uncritical admiration
- extreme or excessive admiration or flattery
- servile flattery; exaggerated and hypocritical praise.
Synonyms for adulation:
adoration
affection
appreciation
deference
deification
hero worship
idolatry
idolization
reverence
veneration
worship
worshiping
worshipping
Antonyms for adulation:
a bad press
abhorrence
abuse
accusation
affront
arraignment
aspersing
aspersion
attack
aversion
bad press
bad-mouthing
badinage
bane
banter
barb
belittlement
beratement
berating
billingsgate
blackening
blame
blasphemy
booing
brickbats
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Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- tergiversate
- nonsensical
- heretical
- intricacy
- misadventured
- benevolent
- disyllabic
- delicacy
- expectantly
- courageousness
- accompanied
- austerity
- silhouetted
- unbearably
- conceivably
- bludgeoning
- abominate
- brilliantly
- resignedly
- pacifying
- alphabetic
- technically
- successively
- distinctively
- ailurophile
- desperately
- proliferate
- interruption
- ultimately
- situated
- infinitude
- primarily
- disassemble
- voracious
- designation
- undoubtedly
- furiously
- monotony
- censorious
- gratifying
- immobilize
- misremembered
- unrecorded
- concurrently
- unbeatable
- grammarian
- coincidently
- sanguinary
- decidedly
- achievable
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Syllable Fun Fact
In English, all syllables must contain at least one vowel sound, but the vowel can be represented by different letters, including 'y' as in 'myth'.
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