recessionary
adjective
recessionary is an adjective meaning “Of or relating to a recession” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled R-E-C-E-S-S-I-O-N-A-R-Y and has 5 syllables, and it appears about once in every 11 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does recessionary mean?
adjective
- 1
Of or relating to a recession.
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Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce recessionary?
Recessionary has 5 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of recessionary
- more recessionary comparative
- most recessionary superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is recessionary?
Recessionary appears about once in every 11 million words in written English, the 101,613th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does recessionary come from?
From recession + -ary.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).