2-methylpropenoic acid

1. 1.

   an unsaturated acid (C4H6O2) used to make resins and plastics

   Synonymsmethacrylic acid

   Broaderacid

Questions about 2-methylpropenoic acid

What does 2-methylpropenoic acid mean?

2-methylpropenoic acid means "an unsaturated acid (C4H6O2) used to make resins and plastics".

What is another word for 2-methylpropenoic acid?

Close synonyms include methacrylic acid. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is 2-methylpropenoic acid a common word?

2-methylpropenoic acid is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.