ethylene glycol

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   a sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze and solvent

   Synonymsglycolethanediol

   Broaderantifreeze

Questions about ethylene glycol

What does ethylene glycol mean?

ethylene glycol means "a sweet but poisonous syrupy liquid used as an antifreeze and solvent".

What is another word for ethylene glycol?

Close synonyms include glycol, ethanediol. 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 ethylene glycol a common word?

ethylene glycol 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.