butene

Questions about butene

What is another word for butene?

It depends which butene you mean. In the sense “any of three isomeric hydrocarbons C4H8; all used in making synthetic rubbers”, the synonyms are butylene. Across all 1 sense there are 1 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 butene?

WordNet records no antonym for butene. 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 butene 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 butene

• Full entry for buteneAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for buteneWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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