methanol

Questions about methanol

What is another word for methanol?

It depends which methanol you mean. In the sense “a light volatile flammable poisonous liquid alcohol; used as an antifreeze and solvent and fuel and as a denaturant for ethyl alcohol”, the synonyms are methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood spirit. 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 methanol?

WordNet records no antonym for methanol. 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 methanol 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 methanol

• Full entry for methanolAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for methanolWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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