acrylic acid

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   an unsaturated liquid carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of acrylic resins

   Synonymspropenoic acid

   Broadercarboxylic acid

Questions about acrylic acid

What does acrylic acid mean?

acrylic acid means "an unsaturated liquid carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of acrylic resins".

What is another word for acrylic acid?

Close synonyms include propenoic 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 acrylic acid a common word?

acrylic 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.