Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

melting

/ˈmɛltɪŋ/

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.80 in modern English

Syllables: melt-ing
IPA: /ˈmɛltɪŋ/

10

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.

adj

Given over to strong emotion; tender; aroused; emotional, tearful.

adj

That causes one to melt with emotion; able to make others feel tender and emotional.

verb

present participle and gerund of melt

noun

The process of changing the state of a substance from solid to liquid by heating it past its melting point.

noun

The act of softening or mitigating.

Example Sentences

"What guards the purity of melting maids, / In courtly balls, and midnight masquerades [...]?"
"And he, Allada Khan, had decided that the child was not unlike himself - an unaggressive nose, and intelligent forehead, eyes both lively and melting."
"Of all the transitions brought about on the Earth’s surface by temperature change, the melting of ice into water is the starkest. It is binary. And for the land beneath, the air above and the life around, it changes everything."

Regional Pronunciation

British English: /ˈmɛltɪŋ/

Inflected Forms

more melting (comparative) most melting (superlative) meltings (plural)

Derived Forms

meltingly meltingness unmelting premelting

Phrases

melting out

Synonyms

liquescent thaw melt thawing

Rhymes With

smelting belting pelting elting

Questions

How do you pronounce melting?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈmɛltɪŋ/.
What does melting mean?: Which is melting, dissolving or liquefying.

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