Meaning and example
give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations
The King abdicated when he married a divorcee
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.338 places abdicate in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 91.4% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
Similar-prevalence words
affableCommon
- Known by
- 91.3%
diffusing warmth and friendliness
relegateCommon
- Known by
- 91.5%
refer to another person for decision or judgment
recantCommon
- Known by
- 91.5%
formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure
extrapolateCommon
- Known by
- 91.5%
draw from specific cases for more general cases
antipathyCommon
- Known by
- 91.2%
a feeling of intense dislike
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
Definitions and related terms are derived from WordNet. This page is part of the curated indexable word set.