admixture

1. 1.

   the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something

   Synonymsalloy

   Broaderimpurity
2. 2.

   an additional ingredient that is added by mixing with the base

   “the growing medium should be equal parts of sand and loam with an admixture of peat moss and cow manure”

   “a large intermixture of sand”

   Synonymsintermixture

   Broaderingredient
3. 3.

   the act of mixing together

   “paste made by a mix of flour and water”

   “the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio”

   Synonymsmixcommixturemixtureintermixturemixing

   Broadercombination

Other forms of admixture

plural

admixtures·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about admixture

What does admixture mean?

admixture means "the state of impairing the quality or reducing the value of something". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in admixture?

admixture has 3 syllables: ad-mix-ture. The stress falls on "ad".

What is another word for admixture?

Close synonyms include alloy, intermixture, mix, commixture, mixture. 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 admixture a common word?

admixture 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.