🎯 Perfect Rhymes for "Recent"
5 wordsThese words rhyme exactly with "recent" — same ending sound.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| decent | 2 | noun | Appropriate; suitable for the circumstances. |
| indecent | 3 | Not in keeping with conventional moral values; improper, immodest, or unseemly. | |
| maurice hunt | 3 | — | |
| mellicent | 3 | noun | — |
| police hunt | 3 | — |
🎵 Near Rhymes for "Recent"
50 wordsThese words don't rhyme perfectly but share a similar sound — great for slant rhyme and song lyrics.
| Word | Syllables | Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|---|
| complacent | 3 | Uncritically satisfied with oneself or one's achievements; smug. | |
| malfeasance | 3 | noun | Wrongdoing. |
| regent | 2 | noun | One who rules in place of the monarch, especially because the monarch is too young, absent, or disabled. |
| adjacent | 3 | noun | Lying next to, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on. |
| beacon | 2 | noun | (figurative) That which gives notice of danger, hope, etc., or keeps people on the correct path; a source of inspiration. |
| pleasing | 2 | noun | Agreeable; giving pleasure, cheer, enjoyment or gratification. |
| frequent | 2 | verb | Done or occurring often; common. |
| agreement | 3 | noun | (countable) An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct. |
| convenient | 3 | Serving to reduce a difficulty, or accessible with minimum difficulty; expedient. | |
| seasoned | 2 | Of a food, often a liquid: containing seasonings | |
| thesis | 2 | noun | (by extension) A lengthy essay written to establish the validity of a thesis (sense 1.1), especially one submitted in order to complete the requirements for a non-doctoral degree in the US and a doctoral degree in the UK; a dissertation. |
| achievement | 3 | noun | The act of achieving or performing; a successful performance; accomplishment. |
| treatment | 2 | noun | Medical care for an illness or injury. |
| decedent | 3 | noun | (law, chiefly US) A dead person. |
| secant | 2 | noun | (trigonometry) In a right triangle, the reciprocal of the cosine of an angle. Symbol: sec |
| treason | 2 | noun | The crime of betraying one’s own country. |
| seeking | 2 | noun | The act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something. |
| season | 2 | noun | Each of the four divisions of a year: spring, summer, autumn (fall) and winter |
| cheating | 2 | noun | An act of deception, fraud, trickery, imposture, imposition or infidelity. |
| freezing | 2 | noun | (countable and uncountable) The change in state of a substance from liquid to solid by cooling to a critically low temperature. |
| creeping | 2 | noun | The act of something that creeps. |
| threesome | 2 | noun | An instance of sexual activity involving three people. |
| squeezing | 2 | noun | The act of pressing; compression. |
| leaving | 2 | a 2009 French film directed by Catherine Corsini, written by Corsini and Gaeelle Mace, and starring Sergi López, Kristin Scott Thomas and Yvan Attal. | |
| reasons | 2 | noun | (law, plural only) A written judgment or ruling by a judge or similar decision maker. |
| weakened | 2 | Reduced; made less strong. | |
| decence | 2 | noun | (obsolete) decency |
| ceiling | 2 | noun | The overhead closure of a room. |
| speaking | 2 | noun | Involving speaking. |
| keeping | 2 | noun | Maintenance; support; provision; feed. |
| sleeping | 2 | noun | Asleep. |
| silent treatment | 4 | noun | A form of social sanction that consists of ignoring a particular individual, neither speaking to that person nor responding to his or her words. |
| leasing | 2 | noun | (archaic) A lie; the act of lying, falsehood. |
| pieces | 2 | "Pieces" is a song written and recorded by Canadian band Sum 41. | |
| creasing | 2 | noun | The act by which something creases. |
| eaten | 2 | (especially in combination) Having been consumed by eating. | |
| treating | 2 | noun | Treatment. |
| greasing | 2 | noun | An application of grease. |
| piecing | 2 | noun | A patch. |
| resend | 2 | verb | (transitive) To send again. |
| precent | 2 | verb | (intransitive) To act as precentor, leading songs or prayers in a place of worship. |
| cheapest | 2 | Low or reduced in price. | |
| retent | 2 | noun | That which is retained. |
| demons | 2 | (pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform ; sometimes also called The Possessed or The Devils) a novel by Fyodor Dostoevsky, first published in the journal The Russian Messenger in 1871–72. | |
| dreaming | 2 | noun | An instance of dreaming; a dream or reverie. |
| leases | 2 | noun | (formal, law) An interest in land granting exclusive use or occupation of real estate for a limited period; a leasehold. |
| reason | 2 | noun | (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition. |
| rican | 2 | noun | Clipping of Puerto Rican. [A person from Puerto Rico.] |
| riesen | 2 | noun | A surname from German. |
| semen | 2 | noun | A sticky, milky fluid produced in male reproductive organs that contains the reproductive cells. |
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