depilatory

1. 1.

   able to remove hair or render hairless

   Similarhairless

Other forms of depilatory

plural

depilatories·

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 depilatory

What does depilatory mean?

depilatory means "a chemical (usually a sulfide) used to remove hair or wool or bristles from hides". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in depilatory?

depilatory has 5 syllables: de-pil-a-to-ry. The stress falls on "pil". In IPA it is /dɪˈpɪləˌtɔɹi/.

What is another word for depilatory?

Close synonyms include depilator, epilator. 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 depilatory a common word?

depilatory 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.

What rhymes with depilatory?

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