opportunity
nounHow many syllables in opportunity?
There are 5 syllables in the word opportunity.How to pronounce opportunity:
Definition of opportunity:
- opportunity (noun):
- a good chance or prospect
- a favorable juncture of circumstances
- a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances.
Synonyms for opportunity:
audience
break
chance
clean slate
crack
day
fresh start
hearing
hour
hunting ground
look-in
moment
occasion
opening
oprtunet
possibility
possibleness
room
say
scope
shot
slot
street
tabula rasa
throw
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Antonyms for opportunity:
accident
adversity
affliction
annoyance
anxiety
bad break
bad fortune
bad luck
bad news
burden
calamity
casualty
cataclysm
catastrophe
contretemps
debacle
difficulty
disadvantage
disappointment
disaster
drawback
failure
forfeit
hard luck
hardness
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Here are some other common 5-syllable words.
- laboratory
- university
- uncooperative
- diagonally
- capability
- disconsolately
- adulteration
- sadistically
- hysterically
- identically
- recapacitate
- conventional
- unwarrantable
- abominable
- matriculation
- cosmopolitan
- intellectual
- overcompensate
- hilariously
- choreography
- significantly
- nostalgically
- multisyllable
- uninterrupted
- accompaniment
- aficionada
- unregrettable
- exhilaration
- unexplainable
- patronizingly
- generically
- technicality
- lackadaisical
- unconditional
- mysteriousness
- magnificently
- interdependent
- expediently
- deliciously
- industrialist
- exaggeration
- craniologist
- perfectionist
- calumniator
- articulacy
- rememberable
- longitudinal
- rectifiable
- victoriously
- sentimentally
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Syllable Fun Fact
The variation in syllable count for the same word between British and American English accents, such as 'secretary', reflects differences in pronunciation standards.
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