preparation
nounHow many syllables in preparation?
There are 4 syllables in the word preparation.How to pronounce preparation:
Definition of preparation:
- preparation (noun):
- the act of preparing or being prepared
- the activity of putting or setting in order in advance of some act or purpose.
- the action or process of making something ready for use or service or of getting ready for some occasion, test, or duty
Synonyms for preparation:
activity
aliveness
arranging
awareness
care
carefulness
cautiousness
consciousness
cookery
cooking
deployment
development
devising
fire control
formulation
getting ready
grooming
groundwork
homework
makeready
mindfulness
planning
prep
preparedness
preparing
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Antonyms for preparation:
amazement
astonishment
doubt
fear
food
hindsight
ignorance
ingredient
sensation
surprise
thoughtlessness
unreadiness
wonder
Here are some other common 4-syllable words.
- nostalgia
- pedagogy
- delicately
- hellacious
- unsufficient
- incoercible
- debatable
- variegated
- beforehand
- disestablish
- demolition
- tantalizing
- inopportune
- stationery
- tribulation
- discipleship
- antepenult
- reservation
- Ukrainian
- Akecheta
- deliverance
- somniferous
- exodermis
- valiantly
- self-discipline
- binoculars
- punctuation
- imperfect-rhyme
- zooflagellates
- bilateral
- hors d'oeuvre
- day-after-day
- pas de bourrée
- dissectible
- authorities
- incontinence
- dividable
- counterclockwise
- benignity
- anthologize
- transparency
- kiloliter
- intersection
- undernourished
- herbivorous
- Canis Major
- leakage-current
- cheeseburger
- sycophantic
- formality
- … more
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