dihydric alcohol

1. 1.

   any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule

   Synonymsdiolglycol

   Broaderalcohol

Questions about dihydric alcohol

What does dihydric alcohol mean?

dihydric alcohol means "any of a class of alcohols having 2 hydroxyl groups in each molecule".

What is another word for dihydric alcohol?

Close synonyms include diol, glycol. 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 dihydric alcohol a common word?

dihydric alcohol 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.