oncoming
How many syllables in oncoming?
There are 3 syllables in the word oncoming.How to pronounce oncoming:
Synonyms for oncoming:
advancing
aflare
afoot
ahorse
ahorseback
approaching
at hand
automotive
awheel
blown
coming
fast-flying
flaring
flying
forthcoming
future
imminent
impending
kinetic
looming
mobile
motion
nearing
on hand
onrushing
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Antonyms for oncoming:
a long time away
avoidable
bygone
current
delayed
departing
distant
doubtful
elapsed
escapable
far
far-off
future
gone
late
later
leaving
never
passing
past
preceding
receding
recent
remote
unlikely
Here are some other common 3-syllable words.
- fallible
- dictator
- Buchanan
- ungenuine
- Poseidon
- horizons
- pregnancy
- newfangled
- devious
- decorum
- bafflingly
- indiscreet
- grumpily
- flavorful
- rivaling
- enchanting
- dizziness
- excelling
- compliance
- mansuetude
- sentinel
- fatally
- disabled
- dalaga
- scrutiny
- oculist
- mesmerize
- nipperkin
- icicles
- zodiac
- rehearsal
- motionless
- assertion
- soberness
- Rogena
- rescuer
- hostilely
- bafflement
- royalty
- outrageous
- hebdomad
- excepting
- Ethaniel
- wretchedness
- unvaried
- boastfully
- detriment
- copalite
- nastier
- impassioned
- … more
Syllable Fun Fact
Ambisyllabicity occurs when a consonant at the boundary of two syllables belongs to both, as in the word 'happen'.
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