cottony-white

1. 1.

   of something as white as cotton

   “cottony-white clouds”

   Similarachromatic

Questions about cottony-white

What does cottony-white mean?

cottony-white means "of something as white as cotton".

How many syllables are in cottony-white?

cottony-white has 4 syllables and divides as cot-to-ny--white 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 cottony-white a common word?

cottony-white 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.