furfural

Questions about furfural

What is another word for furfural?

It depends which furfural you mean. In the sense “a liquid aldehyde with a penetrating odor; made from plant hulls and corncobs; used in making furan and as a solvent”, the synonyms are furfuraldehyde. 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 furfural?

WordNet records no antonym for furfural. 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 furfural 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 furfural

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