carbonylic

1. 1.

   relating to or containing the carbonyl group

   Synonymscarbonyl

   chemistry

Questions about carbonylic

What does carbonylic mean?

carbonylic means "relating to or containing the carbonyl group".

How many syllables are in carbonylic?

carbonylic has 4 syllables: car-bo-ny-lic. The stress falls on "ny".

What is another word for carbonylic?

Close synonyms include carbonyl. 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 carbonylic a common word?

carbonylic 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.