bureaucracy
nounHow many syllables in bureaucracy?
There are 4 syllables in the word bureaucracy.How to pronounce bureaucracy:
Definition of bureaucracy:
- bureaucracy (noun):
- nonelective government officials.
- government officials collectively
- a body of nonelected government officials
Synonyms for bureaucracy:
administration
authorities
bureaucratism
civil service
corridors of power
directorate
government
government officials
ministry
officialdom
officials
pentagon
the system
Antonyms for bureaucracy:
absence of red tape
cutting the red tape
efficiency
flexibility
rearrangement
reorganisation
reorganization
streamlining
Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- affidavit
- accurately
- toxicity
- maculated
- unawakened
- discontinue
- composition
- underpinning
- patronizing
- malevolent
- calculating
- accidently
- obnoxious
- hospitable
- grammatical
- vicarious
- mediator
- consummation
- Anglocentric
- sinopias
- excitable
- enchiladas
- subjugation
- resistable
- receptiveness
- hypocrisy
- ferocity
- confederate
- collectively
- persuasion
- forsythia
- overmatched
- decisively
- agreeing
- millimetre
- importuning
- frighteningly
- unnatural
- twenty seven
- hyperalert
- acknowledgment
- humpty-dumpty
- unitedly
- narrow-minded
- phenomena
- fickle-minded
- duplicity
- unconvincing
- physically
- monstrosity
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Syllable Fun Fact
Light syllables, having short vowels and no ending consonant, often occur in unstressed positions in polysyllabic words.
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