disposable

1. 1.

   an item that can be disposed of after it has been used

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Other forms of disposable

plural

disposables·

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 disposable

What does disposable mean?

disposable means "free or available for use or disposition". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disposable?

disposable has 4 syllables: di-spo-sa-ble. The stress falls on "spo". In IPA it is /dɪˈspoʊzəbəl/.

What is the opposite of disposable?

The recorded antonyms are nondisposable, nondisposable.

Is disposable a common word?

disposable is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.