drying agent

Questions about drying agent

What is another word for drying agent?

It depends which drying agent you mean. In the sense “a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture)”, the synonyms are desiccant, drier, siccative. Across all 1 sense there are 3 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 drying agent?

WordNet records no antonym for drying agent. 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 drying agent 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 drying agent

• Full entry for drying agentAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for drying agentWhether 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.