eye 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”

   Synonymsdropper

   Broaderpipet

Questions about eye dropper

What does eye dropper mean?

eye 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".

What is another word for eye dropper?

Close synonyms include 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 eye dropper a common word?

eye dropper 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.