alabastrine

1. 1.

   of or resembling alabaster

   “alabaster statue”

   Synonymsalabaster

Questions about alabastrine

What does alabastrine mean?

alabastrine means "of or resembling alabaster".

How many syllables are in alabastrine?

alabastrine has 4 syllables: a-la-ba-strine. The stress falls on "la".

What is another word for alabastrine?

Close synonyms include alabaster. 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 alabastrine a common word?

alabastrine 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.