expedient
adjectiveHow many syllables in expedient?
There are 4 syllables in the word expedient.How to pronounce expedient:
Definition of expedient:
- expedient (adjective):
- serving to promote your interest.
- useful or advantageous in a given situation
- suitable for achieving a particular end in a given circumstance
Synonyms for expedient:
advantageous
advisable
appropriate
beneficial
carpetbag
carpetbagging
convenient
desirable
effective
fit
helpful
judicious
opportune
opportunist
opportunistic
politic
possible
practicable
practical
pragmatic
profitable
proper
prudent
suitable
tactical
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Antonyms for expedient:
abortive
abstract
absurd
adverse
altruistic
annihilative
anticlimactic
asinine
awkward
bad
baleful
baneful
barren
bootless
bothersome
brainless
brash
calamitous
cancerous
capricious
careless
cataclysmic
catastrophic
challenging
clueless
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Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- sanitary
- complacently
- ignorantly
- omnipotent
- predetermined
- congregated
- Aphrodite
- espionage
- mentality
- capacious
- simultaneous
- even-tempered
- acceptation
- gratuitously
- surmountable
- memorial
- advertisement
- etcetera
- policewoman
- intersected
- overreact
- syllabary
- mischievousness
- convalescing
- bilabial
- inexpensive
- connubial
- extirpation
- practically
- unreadable
- underwhelming
- presumably
- democracy
- omnipresent
- irascible
- inhabitant
- innocuous
- adulation
- tergiversate
- nonsensical
- heretical
- intricacy
- misadventured
- benevolent
- disyllabic
- delicacy
- expectantly
- courageousness
- accompanied
- austerity
- … more
Syllable Fun Fact
Schwa, represented by the symbol ə, is a common unstressed and neutral vowel sound in many syllables of English words.
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