Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

chiding

/ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 2.11 in modern English

Syllables: chid-ing
IPA: /ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/

14

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of chide

noun

adj

Reproachful; critical.

Example Sentences

"The cause I never knew; one would have thought the knowledge of the guilt and misery which followed his former career, and above all the chidings of a wife whom he loved would have deterred him; […]"
"it is better to dwell in a desert Desolate country, than in a house with a chiding and an angry wife."
"And the said Mr. Hale did not say this in a chiding, quarrelsome, or brawling manner."
"How expressive this little parenthesis: "Sakuntalâ makes a chiding gesture with her finger"!"

Inflected Forms

chidings (plural) more chiding (comparative) most chiding (superlative)

Derived Forms

chidingly unchiding

Synonyms

berating browbeating rixation chiding chockling correption dirdum down the banks dressing down going over jawing lecture

Rhymes With

providing riding hiding deciding sliding guiding dividing residing siding presiding abiding gliding

Questions

How do you pronounce chiding?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈt͡ʃaɪdɪŋ/.
What does chiding mean?: present participle and gerund of chide

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