carboxylic acid

1. 1.

   an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups

   Broaderacid

   Narroweracetic acidhexanedioic acidmucic acidsuberic acidsuccinic acidsaccharic acidsebacic acidsorbic acidvaleric acidfatty acid

Questions about carboxylic acid

What does carboxylic acid mean?

carboxylic acid means "an organic acid characterized by one or more carboxyl groups".

Is carboxylic acid a common word?

carboxylic acid 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.