artificial additive

1. 1.

   an additive to food intended to improve its flavor or appearance or shelf-life

   Synonymsfood additive

   Broaderadditive

Questions about artificial additive

What does artificial additive mean?

artificial additive means "an additive to food intended to improve its flavor or appearance or shelf-life".

What is another word for artificial additive?

Close synonyms include food additive. 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 artificial additive a common word?

artificial additive 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.