clean-burning

1. 1.

   leaving little contamination while consuming fuel

   “natural gas is a clean-burning fuel”

   Similarfueled

Questions about clean-burning

What does clean-burning mean?

clean-burning means "leaving little contamination while consuming fuel".

How many syllables are in clean-burning?

clean-burning has 4 syllables and divides as cle-an--bur-ning under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is clean-burning a common word?

clean-burning 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.