adipic acid

1. 1.

   a carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of nylon

   Synonymshexanedioic acid

   Broadercarboxylic acid

Questions about adipic acid

What does adipic acid mean?

adipic acid means "a carboxylic acid used in the manufacture of nylon".

What is another word for adipic acid?

Close synonyms include hexanedioic 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 adipic acid a common word?

adipic 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.