missionary
nounHow many syllables in missionary?
There are 5 syllables in the word missionary.How to pronounce missionary:
Definition of missionary:
- missionary (noun):
- a person sent abroad by a church to do religious and social work
- a person undertaking a mission and especially a religious mission
- someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program.
Synonyms for missionary:
apostle
bishop
chaplain
churchman
clergyman
cleric
clerical
converter
cyril
deacon
ecclesiastic
evangelist
friar
instructor
mendicant
minister
missioner
monastic
monk
padre
pastor
preacher
priest
propagandist
proselytizer
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Antonyms for missionary:
acolyte
adherent
catechumen
convert
convertee
disciple
epigone
follower
neophyte
new believer
novice
novitiate
proselyte
Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- involuntary
- insubordinate
- brachiosaurus
- unaccompanied
- uncoverable
- uncomprehending
- fiduciary
- semiconductor
- Alexandria
- deteriorate
- imaginary
- regeneracy
- immorality
- examinable
- vivisepulture
- schematically
- recognisable
- phonasthenia
- hagiocracy
- Paleolithic
- Emiliano
- infuriating
- horrifically
- supernatural
- dissatisfaction
- harmoniously
- emphatically
- agitatedly
- practicality
- absentmindedly
- undergraduate
- elliptically
- businessperson
- unevasively
- punctiliously
- self-aggrandizement
- iconography
- contemporaneous
- aluminium
- sedimentary
- classification
- sentimentalize
- undependable
- commonality
- ferociousness
- dissemination
- unobtainable
- expository
- proportionate
- symmetrically
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Syllable Fun Fact
The concept of syllabotonic rhythm in English means that stress plays a more significant role than the number of syllables in determining the rhythm of speech.
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