capillary

1. 1.

   of or relating to hair
2. 2.

   long and slender with a very small internal diameter

   “a capillary tube”

   Synonymshairlike

   Similarthin

Other forms of capillary

plural

capillaries·

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 capillary

What does capillary mean?

capillary means "a tube of small internal diameter; holds liquid by capillary action". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in capillary?

capillary has 4 syllables: cap-il-lar-y. The stress falls on "cap". In IPA it is /ˈkæpəˌlɛɹi/.

What is another word for capillary?

Close synonyms include capillary tube, capillary tubing, capillary vessel, hairlike. 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 capillary a common word?

capillary is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with capillary?

6 words rhyme with capillary. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.