acetyl

Questions about acetyl

What is another word for acetyl?

It depends which acetyl you mean. In the sense “the organic group of acetic acid (CH3CO-)”, the synonyms are acetyl group, acetyl radical, ethanoyl group, ethanoyl radical. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of acetyl?

WordNet records no antonym for acetyl. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for acetyl come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of acetyl

• Full entry for acetylAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for acetylWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.