cosmetic

1. 1.

   a toiletry designed to beautify the body

   Broadertoiletry

   Narrowerdepilatoryhighlightermakeupnail polishpencil

Other forms of cosmetic

plural

cosmetics·

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 cosmetic

What does cosmetic mean?

cosmetic means "serving an esthetic rather than a useful purpose". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in cosmetic?

cosmetic has 3 syllables: co-smet-ic. The stress falls on "smet". In IPA it is /kɑzˈmɛtɪk/.

What is another word for cosmetic?

Close synonyms include decorative, ornamental, enhancive. 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 cosmetic a common word?

cosmetic is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. 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 cosmetic?

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