acrylic fiber

1. 1.

   polymerized from acrylonitrile

   Synonymsacrylic

   Broaderman-made fiber

Questions about acrylic fiber

What does acrylic fiber mean?

acrylic fiber means "polymerized from acrylonitrile".

What is another word for acrylic fiber?

Close synonyms include acrylic. 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 fiber a common word?

acrylic fiber 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.