nictitate
Meaning of nictitate
- blink.
the lid of her left eye began to nictate
late 17th century: from Latin nictat- ‘blinked’, from the verb nictare ‘to blink’. The variant nictitate is from the medieval Latin frequentative of nictare .
Information about nictitate
- It is a verb.
- The plural form of nictitate is: nictitates.
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Hyphenation of nictitate
nic-ti-tate
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- nictitate is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
nictitate synonyms
Meaning blink:
Words that rhyme with nictitate
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