What does fire-retardant mean?

fire-retardant means "difficult to burn".

How many syllables are in fire-retardant?

fire-retardant has 5 syllables and divides as fi-re--re-tar-dant under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for fire-retardant?

Close synonyms include fire-resistant, fire-resisting, fire-resistive. 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 fire-retardant a common word?

fire-retardant 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.

Fire-retardant — meaning and 3 synonyms

adjective

1 senseA word that describes or qualifies a noun.

1.
difficult to burn
Synonymsfire-resistant fire-resisting fire-resistive
Similarnoncombustible

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What does fire-retardant mean?: fire-retardant means "difficult to burn".
How many syllables are in fire-retardant?: fire-retardant has 5 syllables and divides as fi-re--re-tar-dant under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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