calefactory

1. 1.

   serving to heat

   “a heating pad is calefactory”

   Synonymscalefactive

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Questions about calefactory

What does calefactory mean?

calefactory means "serving to heat".

How many syllables are in calefactory?

calefactory has 5 syllables: ca-le-fac-to-ry. The stress falls on "fac".

What is another word for calefactory?

Close synonyms include calefactive. 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 calefactory a common word?

calefactory 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.