burster

Other forms of burster

plural

bursters·

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 burster

What does burster mean?

burster means "a quantity of explosive to be set off at one time".

How many syllables are in burster?

burster has 2 syllables: bur-ster. The stress falls on "bur".

What is another word for burster?

Close synonyms include charge, bursting charge, explosive charge. 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 burster a common word?

burster 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.