direct dye

1. 1.

   dye with a high affinity for cellulose fibers (cotton or rayon etc.)

   Synonymssubstantive dye

   Broaderdye

Questions about direct dye

What does direct dye mean?

direct dye means "dye with a high affinity for cellulose fibers (cotton or rayon etc.)".

What is another word for direct dye?

Close synonyms include substantive dye. 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 direct dye a common word?

direct dye 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.