celluloid

1. 1.

   artificial as if portrayed in a film

   “a novel with flat celluloid characters”

   Synonymssynthetic

   Similarartificial

Other forms of celluloid

plural

celluloids·

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 celluloid

What does celluloid mean?

celluloid means "highly flammable substance made from cellulose nitrate and camphor; used in e.g. motion-picture and X-ray film; its use has decreased with the development of nonflammable thermoplastics". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in celluloid?

celluloid has 3 syllables: cel-lu-loid. The stress falls on "cel". In IPA it is /ˈsɛləˌlɔɪd/.

What is another word for celluloid?

Close synonyms include film, cinema, synthetic. 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 celluloid a common word?

celluloid 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 celluloid?

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