toady
nounHow many syllables in toady?
There are 2 syllables in the word toady.How to pronounce toady:
Definition of toady:
- toady (noun):
- one who flatters in the hope of gaining favors sycophant
- noun. a person who tries to please someone in order to gain a personal advantage.
Synonyms for toady:
admirer
adulator
apparatchik
apple polisher
apple-polisher
ass-kisser
bootlicker
brown-noser
brownnoser
crawler
creep
devotee
disciple
fan
fawner
flatterer
flunkey
flunkie
flunky
goody-goody
groveler
groveller
hanger-on
henchman
idolator
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Antonyms for toady:
dissenter
dissident
free spirit
free thinker
freethinker
independent
individual
individualist
leader
maverick
nonconformist
sceptic
skeptic
Here are some other common 2-syllable words.
- correr
- forswear
- smarmy
- kingbolt
- outsized
- grittle
- mushy
- arose
- famished
- subsumed
- humbly
- beget
- whirling
- intoned
- bragged
- bemused
- plushy
- missus
- stowing
- inquired
- sulked
- reread
- rubbed
- bestride
- reviled
- boarding
- grouchy
- practiced
- rummaged
- bluer
- awaits
- billowed
- drawled
- chortles
- defray
- alack
- reeking
- pelting
- wandered
- spondee
- mobbed
- damasked
- remarked
- displeased
- rubbish
- wortle
- skyward
- brighten
- scuttle
- grovel
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In English, certain prefixes and suffixes, when added to a base word, can change its syllable count, as with 'happy' (2 syllables) becoming 'unhappiness' (4 syllables).
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