dropper

1. 1.

   pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time

   “she used an eye dropper to administer medication to the eyes”

   Synonymseye dropper

   Broaderpipet

Other forms of dropper

plural

droppers·

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 dropper

What does dropper mean?

dropper means "pipet consisting of a small tube with a vacuum bulb at one end for drawing liquid in and releasing it a drop at a time".

How many syllables are in dropper?

dropper has 2 syllables: drop-per. The stress falls on "drop". In IPA it is /ˈdɹɑpɚ/.

What is another word for dropper?

Close synonyms include eye dropper. 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 dropper a common word?

dropper is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.