diethyl ether

Questions about diethyl ether

What does diethyl ether mean?

diethyl ether means "a colorless volatile highly flammable liquid formerly used as an inhalation anesthetic".

What is another word for diethyl ether?

Close synonyms include ether, ethoxyethane, divinyl ether, vinyl ether, ethyl ether. 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 diethyl ether a common word?

diethyl ether 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.