carboxylic

1. 1.

   relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical

   Synonymscarboxyl

   chemistry

Questions about carboxylic

What does carboxylic mean?

carboxylic means "relating to or containing the carboxyl group or carboxyl radical".

How many syllables are in carboxylic?

carboxylic has 4 syllables: car-box-yl-ic. The stress falls on "yl". In IPA it is /kɑɹbɔkˈsɪlɪk/.

What is another word for carboxylic?

Close synonyms include carboxyl. 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 carboxylic a common word?

carboxylic 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.