ethyl ether

Questions about ethyl ether

What does ethyl ether mean?

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

What is another word for ethyl ether?

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

ethyl 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.